Is "youth reading away from books" really going on?

ByRach

Since the mid-1990s "Reading apart"Began to be pointed out, with the emergence of smartphones and tablets"Reading away from young peopleSometimes it is closed up as a social problem. However, when a survey company's Pew Research conducted a survey on reading to 6224 Americans over the age of 16, a result inevitably felt doubtful about the word "departure from young people."

Younger Americans and Public Libraries | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/09/10/younger-americans-and-public-libraries/

According to Pew Research, 98% of those under the age of 30 use the Internet, 77% have smart phones and 24% have e-book readers. 62 percent of those under the age of 30 answered that "really useful and important information can not be obtained on the Internet", while they surpass 53% over 30 years of age I will.

ByAlfred Hermida

Then, about how many people reading books (paper medium / e-book) among people under 30 years old, 43% of people are reading books by people under 30 years old, On the other hand, the percentage of people who read books in the past year was 88%, exceeding 79% of those over 30 years old, "Young people are reading books" Result has come out. It is also obvious that the average annual reading number of people under the age of 30 who answered that they read a book in the past year was 10 books.

In the United States, although the number of people actually using the library has decreased, the number of people using the library's website is increasing. People who are 30 years of age or older who actually visit the library are 50% of the total, decreased from 58% in 2012, but users of the website increased from 28% in 2012 to 36% in 2012. Among the people under 30 years old, the result that the use method of the library has changed compared with those over 30 years old has come out.

ByJessica

In Japan, Research Bank of Life Media conducts surveys on reading every year for men and women of teens to 60s.Survey of 2013As for the person who reads books more than one book per year, the result is 72.3% of the total,75.6% in 2012,81.5% in fiscal 2011It is on a downward trend.

In the survey of research banks, the number of people reading more than one book per year tends to decrease, but the reading ratio by age has not been announced. While the emergence of smartphones and tablets sometimes point out that "reading away from young people" is on the other hand, men in their 20s and 30s are reading books in their 60sInvestigation resultThere is a reading phenomenon in America and Japan, it seems not to be a phenomenon occurring only among young people.

ByMark J P