Interesting reports and research May 10-14
Written with a pen Printed books are in no hurry to give way to gadgets, despite some predictions. The results of the Statista research show that respondents from different countries still prefer paper format to electronic one. So, according to a survey, in 2020, 45% of US residents bought at least one printed book. For comparison: 23% of Americans purchased the electronic version. More about this – in the material of “Kommersant”. Only old people go to battle More and more elderly people in Germany are fond of computer games. According to a study by Verband der deutschen Games-Branche – Game (Association of the German Games Industry), in 2020, 5.1 million people aged 60 and over played in them. The increase in comparison with 2019 amounted to 700 thousand people. About how elderly Germans became interested in video games – in the material of “Kommersant”. Old school versus new More than a third of US residents (35%) learn about new music from the air in the old fashioned way, and the same amount – through streaming services. Such data is provided by YouGov …
Written with a pen
Printed books are in no hurry to give way to gadgets, despite some predictions. The results of the Statista research show that respondents from different countries still prefer paper format to electronic one. So, according to a survey, in 2020, 45% of US residents bought at least one printed book. For comparison: 23% of Americans purchased the electronic version. More about this – in the material of “Kommersant”.
Only old men go to battle
More and more elderly people in Germany are addicted to computer games. According to a study by Verband der deutschen Games-Branche – Game (Association of the German Games Industry), in 2020, 5.1 million people aged 60 and over played in them. The increase in comparison with 2019 amounted to 700 thousand people. About how elderly Germans became interested in video games – in the material of “Kommersant”.
Old school versus new
More than a third of US residents (35%) learn about new music from the air in the old fashioned way, and the same amount – through streaming services. Such data are provided by YouGov company according to the results of a survey of 8 thousand adult Americans. About a third of the respondents also said that they are guided in the search for new music on movies or TV shows, social networks, or recommendations from friends and relatives. More about this – in the material of “Kommersant”.
Pirate networks
The European Union Intellectual Property Office has found that Reddit and Twitter are the most popular platforms for discussing pirated content. To do this, scientists analyzed 3.9 million public discussions on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit. The organization concluded that about a third (35%) of all discussions of digital content on the Internet “may be associated with piracy.” More about this – in the material of “Kommersant”.
Lev Kislyak, Anna Povago, Evgeny Fedunenko, Olga Shkurenko
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