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 remains the most common...Continue reading
Category: surveys & polls
Nearly Three Out of Four American Consumers Read or Listened to a Book in the Past Six Months
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 past six months. This...Continue reading
Pew: One in Four American Adults Did Not Read a Book in the Past Year
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 the number of Americans...Continue reading
By the Numbers: Who Doesn’t Read Books in America?
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...Continue reading
One in Five Americans Have Listened to an Audiobook, One in Four Have Read an eBook
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...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in December 2017 as the Per-Page Rate Passed Half a Cent
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 time,...Continue reading
Two-Thirds of Polish eBooks Users Use Kindles
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...Continue reading
Bookbaby 2017 Self-Publishing Survey Report Now Out
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...Continue reading
Audiobook Sales Up 18.2% in 2016, to $2.1 Billion
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...Continue reading
Sigil Was One of the Top Three eBook Making Tools for Canadian Publishers in 2016
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 their digital...Continue reading
New Research Suggests the UK is a Nation of Wannabe Bookworms
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...Continue reading
Half of Chinese Readers Consume Ten or More Books a Year
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 books,...Continue reading
Gallup Doesn’t Poll About Reading Habits for 14 years, Reports People Are Reading More Books
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...Continue reading
Have You Participated in BookBaby’s Self-Publishing Survey Yet?
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...Continue reading
Paypal’s New eBook Report: Consumers Are More Willing to Pay for eBooks Than Video Games
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...Continue reading