Despite their love for digital technology, 80% of kids and teens who use ebooks “still read primarily print books for fun,” a new Scholastic survey of readers aged 6-17 has found. But we are seeing a shift in the way kids read: “58% of 9-to-17-year-olds say they will always want to read books printed on [...]
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That’s what the New York Times’s Brad Stone has noticed, citing examples like his only-just-verbal 2-year-old calling his Kindle – a device he says he’s not completely sold on – “Daddy’s book.” But even 9- or 10-year-olds wouldn’t call it that – it wasn’t ubiquitous enough when they were “growing up.” Now all sorts of [...]