29% of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY]

By Stan Schroeder via Mashable Tech

Nineteen percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29% own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew Internet.

What’s amazing about these findings is that the share of U.S. adults who own tablets nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December 2011 and early January 2012, and almost the exact same thing happened to ereaders, which grew from 10% to 19% over that same time period.

Pew’s numbers suggest that most users own either a tablet or an ereader. It took only one holiday shopping spree for the number of U.S. adults who own either a tablet or an ereader to jump to almost one-third of the adult population – from 18% to 29%.  More…