Print books continue to be more popular than e-books or audio books % of U.S. adults who say they have in the previous 12 months
Americans today have an enormous variety of content available to them at any time of day, and this material is available in a number of formats and through a range of digitally connected devices. Yet even as the number of ways people spend their time has expanded, a Pew Research Center survey finds that the share of Americans who have read a book in the last 12 months (73%) has remained largely unchanged since 2012. And when people reach for a book, it is much more likely to be a traditional print book than a digital product. Fully 65% of Americans have read a print book in the last year, more than double the share that has read an e-book (28%) and more than four times the share that has consumed book content via audio book (14%).
Print books continue to be more popular than e-books  | or audio books  | % of U.S. adults who say they have  | in the previous 12 months  | Read a book  | 79%  | 76  | in any format  | 74  | 73  | 72  | 71%  | Read  | 69  | 65  | 65  | print book  | 63  | 28  | 28  | 27  | Read an e-book  | 23  | 17%  | Listened to an  | 14  | 14  | 13  | 12  | 11%  | audio book  | 2011  | 2012  | 2014  | 2015  | 2016  | Source: Survey conducted March 7-April 4 2016  | "Book Reading 2011"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 