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Jon Morgan

More children now reading e-books | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, pub... - 0 views

  • York Times has an interesting article looking at the younger generation that is just beginning to get involved in e-book reading thanks to parents purchasing the devices for them as gifts.
  • as only 6% in 2010, but is up to 20% so far in 2011.
  • Some teachers have been allowing kids to bring the devices to school for leisure reading, which is another factor that has convinced some parents to buy them.
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  • teachers in middle school were allowing kids to read their books on their e-readers,”
  • the Harry Potter series, remains unavailable electronically so far, even though J.K. Rowling’s agent said last year that they were at least on the horizon. Hopefully the exploding popularity of children’s e-books will convince them to get them available as soon as possible so they can get in on this boom.
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