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More Americans Went to the Library Than to the Movies Last Year (Or So They Say)

29 January, 202029 January, 2020surveys & polls3 Comments

A recent Gallup poll showed that visiting the local library was the most the most frequent cultural activity Americans engaged in in 2019: Visiting the library...

Nearly Three Out of Four American Consumers Read or Listened to a Book in the Past Six Months

27 September, 201927 September, 2019surveys & polls2 Comments

A new survey report from NPD shows that almost three-quarters of consumers in the USA reported reading a book or listening to an audiobook in the...

Pew: One in Four American Adults Did Not Read a Book in the Past Year

7 March, 20197 March, 2019surveys & polls2 Comments

The Pew Research Center has published the results of its latest bi-annual survey into American reading habits. A survey conducted in early January 2018 showed that...

By the Numbers: Who Doesn’t Read Books in America?

24 March, 201824 March, 2018surveys & polls5 Comments

Earlier this month Pew Research Center released the results of its latest survey on American book reading habits. It turns out that one in four Americans...

One in Five Americans Have Listened to an Audiobook, One in Four Have Read an eBook

9 March, 20189 March, 2018surveys & polls8 Comments

After a two-year pause, the Pew Research Center has at long last conducted a new poll on media use in the US. A total of 2,002 adults...

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in December 2017 as the Per-Page Rate Passed Half a Cent

15 January, 201815 February, 2018Kindle (platform), surveys & polls5 Comments

Amazon’s second major ebook market, Kindle Unlimited, continued to grow in December 2017, reaching $19.8 million (plus bonuses). That was an increase of $100,000 from November 2017....

Two-Thirds of Polish eBooks Users Use Kindles

10 August, 201715 August, 2017e-Reading Hardware, Kindle, surveys & polls9 Comments

Despite of hopes to the contrary, Amazon has largely ignored the Polish ebook market. It has no local Kindle Store there, and doesn’t even support Polish as...

Bookbaby 2017 Self-Publishing Survey Report Now Out

13 July, 201713 July, 2017Self-Pub, surveys & polls3 Comments

Last November Bookbaby conducted a survey which polled authors on everything from what genres they are publishing to how they’re promoting their books. I just got an...

Audiobook Sales Up 18.2% in 2016, to $2.1 Billion

7 June, 20177 June, 2017Audiobook, surveys & polls3 Comments

The Audio Publishers Association posted a few of the result from their annual consumer survey today. The APA is estimating that audiobook sales totaled more than $2.1 billion...

Sigil Was One of the Top Three eBook Making Tools for Canadian Publishers in 2016

6 June, 20176 June, 2017surveys & pollsOne Comment

Booknet Canada released its free annual report on the state of digital book publishing in Canada today. The report contains their findings from four years of surveying Canadian...

New Research Suggests the UK is a Nation of Wannabe Bookworms

26 April, 201727 April, 2017surveys & polls3 Comments

We’ve long known that people lie about the books they’ve read, and thanks to a recent survey e now know how and why. Earlier this week the Reading...

Half of Chinese Readers Consume Ten or More Books a Year

25 April, 201727 April, 2017ebook sales, surveys & polls2 Comments

56% of Chinese readers read more than nine books a year, Amazon said in its 2017 National Reading Report. After surveying 14,0000 readers, Amazon revealed that 85% read both...

Gallup Doesn’t Poll About Reading Habits for 14 years, Reports People Are Reading More Books

11 January, 201714 January, 2017surveys & polls3 Comments

Gallup took another of its tetradecennial looks at American reading habits in December, and last week it released the data. In spite of the increase in...

Have You Participated in BookBaby’s Self-Publishing Survey Yet?

21 November, 201621 November, 2016Self-Pub, surveys & polls3 Comments

If there’s one thing we lack in the book publishing industry, it is survey data about the newer parts of the industry. That’s why the self-pub distributor...

Paypal’s New eBook Report: Consumers Are More Willing to Pay for eBooks Than Video Games

2 November, 20163 November, 2016e-Reading Hardware, surveys & polls6 Comments

Paypal released the results of multi-nation survey this week, and it showed that consumers’ reading habits, device preferences, and willingness to pay for content can change...