Apple has sold a bajillion iPads and according to one analyst many of them are being bought by or for teens.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster released a report this week which details the rise of tablet and iPhone ownership in the US. According to a recent survey, 40% of American teens now own an iPhone, and 44% own a tablet of some kind. Those numbers are up significantly since Spring of this year.

We believe it is a positive sign for the power of the iPhone among younger users that Apple was able to expand its market share with teens despite no new product launches between our Spring and Fall 2012 surveys. Read more

Apple is expected to send out invites today for an iPad Mini launch event next week, and while that gadget is certainly the center of attention for the blogosphere, I am not sure that consumers are all that interested in buying one.

TechBargains.com has released the results of a market survey.  Their polling data shows that only 18 percent of consumers are interested in buying the new tablet, a figure which is markedly lower than the interest expressed for other Apple products right before launch. Read more

Some app or service is always watching you while you’re online, and if that bothers you then you’re not alone. The Pew Research Center has just released a report which indicates that people are more aware of their privacy than some might suspect.

The report is drawn from a Pew survey conducted in late March 2011, where 2,254 Americans were polled by phone. 88% of Americans said they owned a cellphone of some kind, and 43% of that group downloaded apps to their phone, a noticeable increase from the 31% who affirmed this detail in 2011.

More than half of respondents (54%) to this survey indicated that they decided not to install an app once they found out how much personal information they’d have to share with the world. What’s more, 30% of respondents reported removing an app after they discovered how much information it collected.

The survey also showed that 12% of the respondents have had their privacy invaded when someone accessed their phone without permission, and over 30% have had a phone stolen at one point. The youngest owners tended to be more likely to have this happen, with some 45% of the 18-24 age group reporting that their phone had been lost or stolen, and 24% saying that someone else has accessed their phone in a way that compromised their privacy.

You can find the full report, with an extensive set of questions, on the Pew website.

If you’ve ever wondered about the old chestnut that the iOS market is more valuable to app developers than Android, app analytics firm Localytics has an answer for you. They recently completed a market survey for iOS and Android apps and found that iOS apps were much more likely to be used over the long term and that iOS apps generated more income on average.

The report shows that iOS apps were 52% more likely than Android apps.to be used ten times or more There’s also evidence for Android app users to be more likely to try and abandon an app after one or two uses.

Getting away from the iOS vs Android debate, Localytics also noted that app retention in 2011 was up 19% over 2010, which is good news for developers as it indicates a greater chance of selling users new content and upgrades inside the app. The chance of a user launching an app only once dropped by 15% between March of 2010 and March of 2011, the period covered by the study.

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Pottermore isn’t selling ebooks yet, but that doesn’t mean they’re not on anyone’s mind.

The Pottermore eBookstore was due to open this fall, but that didn’t happen. Due to the overwhelming complexity of the Pottermore website, the eBookstore was delayed until at least next year.

A new survey was posted on Pottermore over the weekend, and clearly someone’s planning ahead. The survey is 14 questions long, and it is focused on Harry Potter, eBooks, and audiobooks. It looks to be market research, and it asks about what you read, the devices you use, and it also tries to measure your enthusiasm for buying HP ebooks.

Folks, I strongly encourage you to go participate in the survey. I have some concerns that if the response isn’t enthusiastic enough, we might not see the eBooks released at all. Readers have to care for it to be worth the effort.

Pottermore is going to be the only legitimate source of HP eBooks, so if it never opens then we’ll be stuck with just the pirated copies. That doesn’t benefit anyone.

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Changewave Research has just announced the results of their recent survey. Changewave polled US consumers on how they felt about gadgets currently on the market, and to no one’s surprise the new Kindle Fire is the most popular Android tablet on the US market.

Just over 3 thousand consumers were polled in early November. According to Changewave, a full 22% of potential tablet buyers said they were planning to get a Kindle Fire. That is a significant section of the market, and it only comes in second to the iPad, which had 65% of respondents planning to get one.

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This eBookNewser editor prefers to read digital books on the iPad in a double-sided landscape view (pictured, via).

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