E-books

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 […]

If you had asked me to hazard a guess about how this poll would go this year, I would have said this: “After an e-book uptick related to the pandemic and a hesitancy to shop in physical stores, things are probably returning to normal and paper will again reign supreme.” Well…kind of? The paper dead […]

Sixteenth annual poll! When I first launched this poll in 2007, Amazon’s first Kindle was just a few weeks old and iPads didn’t even exist yet. Now we have gizmos galore and a global pandemic under our belts. Are people feeling the e-book thunder or are they weathering the storm with paper in their hands? […]

Well well well. For the first time since the heady days of early 2010s e-book enthusiasm, we’ve seen a pretty significant jump in people who think they’ll buy mostly e-books, with a clear plurality. While the number of people who are sticking to paper books has stayed mostly the same, there was a big shift […]

Hard to believe this poll is growing up so fast! Particularly because of the pandemic and supply chain issues hitting the book world (which so far seem to be mainly overblown), I’m very curious whether the events have impacted e-book adoption. Or are we treasuring our paper books even more than before? But first, my […]