Showing posts with label digital reading devices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital reading devices. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2013

New teen trend?

Publishing Perspectives has an interesting observation that teens may be "snapping back" to print. The website writes: "Could this ongoing preference for print be because the digital titles available to them are underwhelming in relation to competing forms of digital entertainment? Or is it more a question of the lower percentage of teens who have access to digital reading devices, with just 13-14% of teens owning an e-reader and 20% having an iPad or tablet?" No question digital reading devices are not as fast or smooth as other mobile devices, but close. The difference is scale. The 6 to 8" screen is small. And the content is harder to digest, demanding reading as well as listening and watching. I think in the end, the device of choice for a teenager may NOT be a digital reader. But in the past, so many teenagers chose TV over books. What's new? They all got older, and many changed.