Print Book Reading Wanes as E-reader Usage Surges

Bookworms are choosing e-readers over hardcovers and softcovers more than ever, says a recent Pew Research Center study.

A month-long study found more Americans readers, ages 16 and older, are embracing e-readers. The number of traditional readers dropped from 72% to 67% from last year, while digital bookworms jumped from 16% to 23%.

These data show that the process of book reading is shifting," Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Lee Rainie wrote in an email to Mashable. "The rise of e-reading devices has major implications that are affecting the publishing industry and eventually could affect the way knowledge is packaged and the way ideas a…
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