Reasons for e-books: available anytime and quickly

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From Bitkom's point of view, an e-book offers many advantages: adjustable font sizes, integrated dictionaries, the search function for marked text passages - and, last but not least, lower resource consumption. Users also save weight and space. The biggest advantage for them, however, is that the digital books are available at any time.

85 percent of e-book users say this. For three quarters (76 percent) it is the ability to quickly access new reading material. Saving space is the reason for e-books for seven out of ten (72 percent). For a similar number (70 percent) the light weight is the deciding factor, two out of five (42 percent) rely on functions such as translating, taking notes or highlighting.

This summer, the federal government paved the middle east gambling data way for a reduced VAT rate for e-books, among other things. "With the reduced VAT, the federal government is putting e-books on an equal footing with printed books," said Berg. "It remains to be seen whether this will lead to more readers of e-books."



Note on methodology: The information is based on a representative survey conducted by Bitkom Research on behalf of the digital association Bitkom. 1,004 people in Germany aged 16 and over were interviewed by telephone.

The questions were: “Do you read printed books or e-books at least occasionally?”, “On which of the following devices do you read e-books for work or private purposes?”, “For which of the following reasons do you read e-books?” and “Can you imagine reading e-books in the future, regardless of the device?”