Student Ebook Usage Breaks Records
First annual report on student digital book reading provides deep dive into the blockbuster genres, peak binge-reading hours and surprising statistics from the academic year 2022-23
First annual report on student digital book reading provides deep dive into the blockbuster genres, peak binge-reading hours and surprising statistics from the academic year 2022-23
CLEVELAND – April 2, 2024 – Sora released its first annual reading report of worldwide student digital reading data for the 2022-2023 school year. “The State of K-12 Digital Reading” is based on the Sora student reading platform, used in 62,000 public and private schools in 50 U.S. states, 13 Canadian provinces and 75 countries around the world. The report reveals compelling regional differences, double digit growth in Comics and Graphic Novels and a surprising insight on which months tracked the most time spent reading.
“The State of K-12 Digital Reading” Annual Report is the most comprehensive study of trends and insights into K-12 digital reading habits that has been widely circulated. Aggregated data comes primarily from the Sora platform for the school year 2022-23 (July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023). Download the report for free.
“We loaned almost 136,000 titles in Sora in 2023 and had over 60,000 reading hours, and for a region with only 28,000 students that’s a lot of reading,” said Mary Ann Munroe, School Library Services & E-Learning Coordinator at Greater Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Educational Services in New York. “Our region not only has a robust and growing Sora collection, we also partner with our local libraries on Sora to get even more books in the hands of students.”
“Sora has been a real game-changer for our school,” said Valerie Mignone-Conklin, Library Media Specialist at Jericho Middle School in New York. “From book clubs in the classroom to independent reading, I can provide my students with the books they want to read with the click of a button. We have circulated almost 20,000 books on Sora this year alone.”
Key findings include:
Sora, a division of OverDrive, is committed to promoting literacy and has become a crucial resource in over 62,000 K-12 schools worldwide.
Download the report for free. Learn more about the Sora student reading platform.
About the Sora student reading platform
Named one of TIME’s Best Inventions, the Sora student reading platform provides every student with access to the right books. Sora is used by 62,000 K-12 schools and millions of students worldwide, supporting the need for required curriculum titles, class sets and pleasure reading with the largest catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines and other content. TeachingBooks.net (acquired in 2021) complements Sora with one of the largest sets of book-specific supplemental resources that “bring books to life.” Parent company OverDrive – which also provides digital content to public, academic and corporate libraries through the Libby reading app – was founded in 1986 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio USA. www.overdrive.com/schools
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David Burleigh
Director of Communications
dburleigh@overdrive.com
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