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quantitative online survey of 16 countries, "Digital Reading: Usage, Attitudes, and Practices" (2013), focusing on Europe. The survey on digital reading
allows us to map the global digital reading landscape, including seven European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.
One of the main conclusions is that reading matters: to the question: “when purchasing a device with internet access was the ability to read texts such as
books, magazines or newspapers important in your purchase decision”, 61% of the global sample answered yes. Books are definitely going digital with
the majority of the respondents, 58%, having already read a book in digital format. Another conclusion is that digital reading is as an extension of paper as
the individuals which read more on paper are the ones reading more in digital formats.Therefore, we cannot regard digital reading as a replacement activity
but rather a cumulative one. We aim at a better understanding of the affordances of digital reading from a European standpoint.