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Ebooks, E-Reading Devices to Top Children’s Holiday Gifts

 Among the various high-tech gifts and gizmos parents are planning to buy for their children this holiday season, ebooks and e-reading devices are likely to be among the most popular, according to a new survey by PlayCollective and Digital Book World.
 45% of parents surveyed said they plan to buy a new device for their children to use in order to read ebooks. The share of those parents who already own an e-reading device and intend to purchase a new one rose 4% compared with last year.

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95 percent of American public libraries now carry ebooks 

 Ebooks are the new books. At least that's according to a recent survey by the Library Journal that looked at American public libraries. 

 Ninety-five percent of libraries carry ebook titles. That's up from 89 percent in both 2013 and 2012, when researchers thought that adoption had plateaued for good.

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Can e-Books Ever Overtake Print?

 A number of analysts have been proclaiming that within a few years digital eBooks will overtake print.
 PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the most notorious, who recently said this will occur in 2018. Is this possible?
 In the United States and Britain, sales of eBooks represent between a quarter and a third of the consumer book market. According to a recent survey by Nielsen Books, eBook sales made up 23% of unit sales for the first six months of 2014, while hardcover’s accounted for 25% and paperbacks 42%.
 Ever since the Kindle was released in 2007 digital sales have consistently increased by double digit figures. In 2013, sales growth for eBooks slowed to single digits, and the new numbers from Nielsen suggest the leveling off was no anomaly.

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