

More recent tablet ownership statistics show that the worldwide trend continues. Ownership, however, is statistically the same as it was in 2014. adults own a tablet – a substantial increase since Pew Research Center began measuring tablet ownership in 2010. The share of Americans who own a tablet computer has risen tenfold since 2010. Smartphones and tablets are the choices of ebook readers.Ĭellphones are near saturation levels for some groupsįully 92% of American adults own a cellphone, which is similar to the 90% of the public who reported owning these mobile devices in 2014.Īlthough cellphones are common today, the share of adults who own one has risen substantially since 2004, when 65% of Americans owned a mobile phone.Ĭlose to half of all Americans own a tablet.
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If e-reader device sales are in free fall or in their death throes, how are people reading ebooks?Īgain from Pew, the data tells the story. The declining trend of e-reader device sales is clearly continuing for Kindles and similar devices.
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Waterstones decided to stop Kindle sales. Managing director James Daunt says: ‘ Ereader sales continue to be pitiful, so we are taking the display space back.’Ī recent update by Statista shows the continual decline of e-reader device sales for the period 2018 through 2025. If you own a Kindle from 2009, you will know that it is almost the same as the current model. In fact, I believe my old 2nd gen Kindle is better, as it came with an audio connector, which was removed from later models. One of the main problems is that devices have failed to develop in any significant technical form since their introduction in 2008.

Back in 2010, Amazon’s Kindle accounted for 62.8 percent of all e-reader shipments worldwide. In the United States, the revenue from e-books was 158 million U.S. During 2009, around 3.8 million e-readers were sold worldwide. This statistic shows the number of e-book reader shipments worldwide from 2008 to 2012 and also offers a forecast until 2016. Shipments of e-book readers worldwide from 2008 to 2016 (in million units) Ownership of e-readers is somewhat more common among women (22%) than men (15%).ĭata from Statista shows the decline in e-reader sales in more detail: This is a sizable drop from early 2014 when 32% of adults owned this type of device. Some 19% of adults report owning an e-reader – a handheld device such as a Kindle or Nook primarily used for reading e-books. Adapt to change The Kindle device is in declineįirst, in a report on The Demographics of Device Ownership in the US, Pew Research offers the following summary of reading device ownership.
