A study released at the end of the last year suggests how people are reading E-Books. However, it probably will not surprise most of us here that are using LOGOS:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/and-the-most-popular-way-to-read-an-e-book-is/
And something like one in four adults in the U.S. read no books at all in the past year. That stat is from 2007; I wonder how or whether the advent of e-books has changed that.
And something like one in four adults in the U.S. read no books at all in the past year
Or three our of four adults did read a book which could be seen as remarkable when you factor in graduation rates, dyslexia, adult illiteracy ...
And something like one in four adults in the U.S. read no books at all in the past year Or three our of four adults did read a book which could be seen as remarkable when you factor in graduation rates, dyslexia, adult illiteracy ...
Yes, three out of four did read a book. I suppose that's somewhat remarkable, but how many of them read only one book in the whole year?
I find the stats on this are all over the map, and not very well documented. On one site I read:
On another site I saw "nearly 60 percent of adult Americans have never read a book and most of the rest read only one book ayear" (source cited: James B. Twitchell, Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America, New York: University of Columbia Press, 1992, p. 258). I looked up Twitchell's book on Amazon.com and he doesn't say where he got that statistic or what year it's from. He's a professor of English at the University of Florida. Hopefully as an academic publishing through an academic press his information is trustworthy, but these days you never know. Fact-checking in the publishing world seems to be a dying art. (I have no source to cite for that information; it's true; I just feel it in my gut, or maybe I read it on the interwebs... [:)])
97% of statistics are wrong half the time... [:)]
97% of statistics are wrong half the time...
[:)]
Only half ? That is surprising.
EDIT: Remember -- Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
97% of statistics are wrong half the time... Only half ? That is surprising. EDIT: Remember -- Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
It figures. Go figure.
There are so many people today that read ebooks, i think 80% of adult read ebooks and only few go with paper books now.many people read with different different type of readers.
Generally attributed to Brit PM Benjamin Disraeli and entered into pop culture by the genius of Mark Twain, "There are lies, there are <edit>'ed lies, and there are statistics". Back in the days when I used to teach practicing engineers, I modified references to statistical information with, "while not statistically significant, trend analysis indicates..." That simple change eliminated a wasted hour every time we studied a statistic. Any kind of statistic. Just say the word "statistic" and the scientific calculators began humming in anticipation!
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