surveys & polls

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

24 March, 2018 // 5 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 hadn't cracked a book in the past year, and [Read More ...]

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

9 March, 2018 // 8 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 were polled in the first week in January, and the report [Read More ...]

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

15 January, 2018 // 2 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. At the same [Read More ...]

Two-Thirds of Polish eBooks Users Use Kindles

10 August, 2017 // 9 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 a language option in KDP. A new survey [Read More ...]

Bookbaby 2017 Self-Publishing Survey Report Now Out

13 July, 2017 // 3 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 email today with the news that [Read More ...]

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

7 June, 2017 // 3 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 in the US in 2016, up [Read More ...]

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

6 June, 2017 // 1 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 publishers about [Read More ...]

New Research Suggests the UK is a Nation of Wannabe Bookworms

26 April, 2017 // 3 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 Agency published the results of a 2,000 person [Read More ...]

Half of Chinese Readers Consume Ten or More Books a Year

25 April, 2017 // 2 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 ebooks and print [Read More ...]

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

11 January, 2017 // 3 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 digital distractions, Americans are reading [Read More ...]

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

21 November, 2016 // 3 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 BookBaby is running a survey right now [Read More ...]

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

2 November, 2016 // 6 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 drastically as you cross [Read More ...]

The UK is Adopting Audiobooks at about the Same Rate as the US

30 October, 2016 // 6 Comments

Some fool reported a few days back that the UK was resisting the audiobook revolution, but in reality readers in the UK have adopted audiobooks at about the same rate as in the US. A new survey [Read More ...]

McGraw-Hill Polls 3,000 Students on Their Study Habits, But They Won’t Share the Report

21 October, 2016 // 4 Comments

The textbook publisher McGraw-Hill announced this week that it had "asked almost 3K students to reveal their study habits and the role technology plays in learning" and compiled the results into a [Read More ...]

Bitkom: One in Three Germans Readers Have Read an eBook

13 October, 2016 // 2 Comments

The German digital trade group Bitkom has released its annual report (PDF) on digital adoption in Germany this week, and the report contained few surprises. A survey of 2,171 German consumers found [Read More ...]

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