E-books

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 […]

I’m not going to lie, amid the pandemic I thought this was going to be a year where e-books experienced a bit of a resurgence in our annual poll. Nope. If anything, this year’s results reflect the continued resurgence of paper book optimism, which bottomed out between 2011-2013. Not coincidentally, this was around the time […]

It’s that time of year! Time for that moment where we put our fingers on the pulse of our robotic books. Or something. It is quite hard for me to believe that this poll is now a surly teenager. But particularly since we’re in the midst of a pandemic, I’m very curious if that’s had […]

After thirteen years of doing this e-book poll, something interesting seems to be happening. Have we leveled off into a stalemate? With the usual caveats that this is an unscientific poll, the results are below. And wouldn’t you know it: e-books stayed on top. Barely. Like… it’s very close. Here’s a graph of the results, with […]