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Originally Posted by Catlady
I'm finding it really incredible that so many people who don't like the results are having a knee-jerk reaction that the polling methodology is flawed and/or that the pollsters tailored the results to fit someone's agenda.
If there's anything to support this belief, fine--where's the evidence?
It's not like the poll was even remotely close. Why is it so hard to believe that a vast majority of people prefer paper books?
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I think the results are meaningless. According to Pew Research, about 25% of Americans read no books at all. About 18% read less than 20 books a year. That means that about 43% of Americans read little or none.
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Altogether, 43% of Americans age 16 and older have read long-form writing in digital format as of December 2011 – either e-books or newspaper or magazine material in digital form. We get that figure by combining those in the December survey who have read e-books with the 31% of those who regularly read news content and have read that content in digital format and the 16% who read magazines and journals and have read that content in digital format.
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http://libraries.pewinternet.org/201...-of-e-reading/
As I commented upstream, It matters what the question is and who you ask.