Nearly six in ten teenagers are reading books electronically.
40.8% of teenagers have used computers to read books, with a further 17.2% reading on a mobile, says a survey of reading habits released to celebrate World Book Day 2011. 13.3% of teens have used tablet gadgets such as Apple’s iPad, ahead of 9.3% who read using e-Readers, including the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.
The results come as Bloomsbury chief executive Nigel Newton announced earlier this week that 2011 will be the ‘year of the e-book’, pointing to a major expansion in the number of people reading on-screen.
Print books still look unlikely to go out of fashion in the immediate future however, with both adults and teenagers ranking them ahead of news, comics, e-books and magazines as their preferred media.
The WBD survey also reviewed how reading habits have changed over the years; adults remembered their favourite adolescent book as The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend, whereas the outstanding favourite among today’s teenagers was the Harry Potter series. Lord of The Rings, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and 1984 remain enduringly popular reads in both age groups.
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These disclosures have appeared as libraries and schools across the country open their doors to performances and activities in honour of the UK’s largest literary festival today.
On 5 March, the celebrations will continue with World Book Night, a spectacular giveaway of one million copies of 25 pre-selected titles including A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
20,000 devoted readers have been sent 48 editions of their chosen title to give away to friends and encourage a book-loving frenzy across the nation. World Book Night organisers will hand out the remaining books to prisons and hospitals, ensuring print books have a thorough impact this year.
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AOL buys Huffington Post: reaction...
On the whole the first wave of reactions have been positive. AOL, as an internet company trying to make a comeback, is to buy one of the most popular news sites in the US, is, on the face of it, a good news story for both the technology and media worlds. And the fact that, for the moment, Arianna Huffington, the colourful co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, is staying with her creation and taking over the rest of AOL’s content site, bodes well for the ailing AOL.
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said: “Arianna [Huffington] is one of the pre-eminent authors and editors of our time and Tim [Armstrong, chief executive of AOL] has a remarkable track record of business success. Bringing them together creates tremendous potential for AOL.”
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone added: “Editorial vision and leadership are essential in order to transmute our shared cacophony of voices into a valuable dialogue. Arianna’s expertise, empathy, and entrepreneurial enthusiasm forms a kind of alchemy, turning mere words and phrases into powerful expressions of humanity.”
Paul Carr, a technology journalist for TechCrunch, a technology news website recently acquired by AOL which will now fall under Huffington’s leadership, also voiced his praise for the deal: “Now, no-one here has been more skeptical than me of AOL’s content strategy…And yet and yet, for once I find myself applauding Armstrong – and AOL as a whole – for pulling off a double whammy: a brilliant strategic acquisition at a logical price.”
However, Steve Case, AOL’s co-founder, was less than complimentary upon hearing the news of the deal. AOL has a bad reputation for making mergers and acquisitions work post its massively high profile failed merger with Time Warner – which Jeff Bewkes, the current chief executive of Time Warner recently told The Telegraph was the “biggest mistake in corporate history”.
Read more here.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8308131/AOL-buys-Huffington-Post-reaction.html
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said: “Arianna [Huffington] is one of the pre-eminent authors and editors of our time and Tim [Armstrong, chief executive of AOL] has a remarkable track record of business success. Bringing them together creates tremendous potential for AOL.”
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone added: “Editorial vision and leadership are essential in order to transmute our shared cacophony of voices into a valuable dialogue. Arianna’s expertise, empathy, and entrepreneurial enthusiasm forms a kind of alchemy, turning mere words and phrases into powerful expressions of humanity.”
Paul Carr, a technology journalist for TechCrunch, a technology news website recently acquired by AOL which will now fall under Huffington’s leadership, also voiced his praise for the deal: “Now, no-one here has been more skeptical than me of AOL’s content strategy…And yet and yet, for once I find myself applauding Armstrong – and AOL as a whole – for pulling off a double whammy: a brilliant strategic acquisition at a logical price.”
However, Steve Case, AOL’s co-founder, was less than complimentary upon hearing the news of the deal. AOL has a bad reputation for making mergers and acquisitions work post its massively high profile failed merger with Time Warner – which Jeff Bewkes, the current chief executive of Time Warner recently told The Telegraph was the “biggest mistake in corporate history”.
Read more here.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8308131/AOL-buys-Huffington-Post-reaction.html
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