E-books

One of my longstanding beliefs about e-books was that their affordability and portability would eventually win out, no matter how much nostalgia people may have for their paper books, which would retain a niche place in the system. E-books and print books, I thought, would eventually go the way of streaming and vinyl, respectively. Here’s […]

I launched this poll in 2007. The first Kindle had recently been released. iPads didn’t even exist yet!! It’s been interesting to see how feelings toward e-books have evolved through the years, from a surge of initial e-book optimism, followed by a resurgence of print, and some renewed interest in e-books during the pandemic, followed […]

If you had asked me to predict the results of the 18th iteration of my annual e-book poll, I would have guessed that after a spike in e-book enthusiasm during the pandemic, we’d continue on a general trend back toward paper being the format of choice. Well! As usual with this poll, the results did […]

I launched this poll in 2007, when the first Kindle had recently been released. iPads didn’t even exist yet! Now the poll is old enough to vote, which may come in handy the next election cycle. It’s been interesting to see how feelings toward e-books have evolved through the years, from a surge of initial […]

It’s been fascinating to see these results over the years. After a surge of e-book optimism from the poll’s origins in 2007 to e-book hype peak in 2013, the last decade settled into a seesaw around a pretty fixed point, with 40% on each side of the paper and electronic divid. The only real deviation […]

I first launched this poll in 2007, when Amazon’s first Kindle had just been released and iPads didn’t even exist yet. Now we have gadgets and gizmos aplenty, though paper has held on strong. It’s been interesting through the years to get the pulse of e-book optimism and pessimism. My usual caveats to pre-empt the […]