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According to a nationwide survey in the U.S., nearly all (98%) of children between the ages of zero to 8 years have access to a mobile device (Rideout V, The common sense census: media use by kids age zero to eight. Common Sense Media, San Francisco, 2017). The pervasiveness of mobile screen devices has introduced e-books into the home, however, parents report that only 28% of children have ever read a book on a smartphone or tablet (Rideout V, The common sense census: media use by kids age zero to eight. Common Sense Media, San Francisco, 2017). This mismatch between availability and use may be due, in part, to parental skepticism about the value of e-books for their children (Rideout V, Learning at home: families’ educational media use in America. Joan Ganz Cooney Center, New York, 2014). In order to maximize the effectiveness of e-books, it is critical to establish whether and how families use e-books with their children, and what features parents look for in e-books. Thus, the current study analyzed Amazon Mechanical Turk survey data on parent-reported reading behaviors, as well as parent perceptions about contexts and feature preferences for children’s print books and e-books.
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Etta, R.A. (2019). Parent Preferences: e-Books Versus Print Books. In: Kim, J.E., Hassinger-Das, B. (eds) Reading in the Digital Age: Young Children’s Experiences with E-books. Literacy Studies, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20077-0_6
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