Poll Shows That 75% Prefer Printed Books To eBooks

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 21, 2013 @03:41AM from the give-us-dead-trees dept.

Attila Dimedici writes "In a new Rasmussen poll, 75% of American adults would rather read a book in traditional print format than in an ebook format. Only 15% prefer the ebook format (the other 10% are undecided). The latter is a drop from the 23% that preferred the ebook format in Rasmussen's 2011 poll. In addition, more say they buy their books from a brick and mortar store than say they buy books online (35% from brick and mortar, 27% online). I suspect that the 27% who buy online buy more books, but these results are interesting and suggest that the brick and mortar bookstore is not necessarily doomed."

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Re:I agree by jkflying · 2013-07-21 04:16 · Score: 4, Informative

No, it's currently in Vatican City.

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Re:I agree by icebraining · 2013-07-21 04:29 · Score: 3, Informative

Uhm, here in /., I think people are expected to know the different between executable and non-executable formats, the ability of APIs and such.
If you buy a PDF or EPUB file and don't allow it to run scripts, there's no way it can "delete itself", or run anything else, for that matter.

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