Report: Share of Canadians Who Prefer Audiobooks Continues to Grow

From Booknet Canada:

A survey of leisure time and reading habits from industry non-profit BookNet Canada has found that 79% of Canadians felt they had enough or more than enough free time in 2023.

The survey, which has been conducted by BookNet every year since 2013, asked 1,247 Canadians if they had read or listened to a book in the past year and, similar to the previous 9 years, 80% of Canadians had. Just over half of those readers had read between one and five books in 2023 (52%).

The majority of readers prefer to read print books (59%), followed by ebooks (20%), and audiobooks (13%). The dominance of print preference has been dropping since 2019 (from 65% to 59% in 2023), while at the same time, preference for audiobooks has been rising (from 8% in 2019 to 13% in 2023).

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