Article
Gen Zers and Millennials are Still Big Fans of Books – Even if They Don’t Call Themselves ‘Readers’
The Conversation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-30-2024
Subjects
- Book industries and trade,
- Publishers and publishing -- United States,
- Books -- Marketing,
- Consumer behavior,
- Book industry -- Digital humanities
Disciplines
Abstract
Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it. For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s also a small gap between reading activity and identity for younger readers: 61% of Generation Z and millennials have read a print book, e-book or audiobook in the past 12 months, but only 57% identify as readers.
And yet there was a puzzling aspect of our results: The 43% of Gen Z and millennials who didn’t identify as readers actually said they read more print books per month than Gen Z and millennials overall.
Rights
CC BY-ND 4.0 DEED Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/41831
Citation Information
Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda. "Gen Zers and Millennials are Still Big Fans of Books – Even if They Don’t Call Themselves ‘Readers’" The Conversation (2024) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kathi-berens/61/