A QUARTER OF EUROPEAN ONLINE SHOPPERS BOUGHT BOOKS ONLINE LAST YEAR

ALMOST one quarter of European online shoppers used the internet last year to buy books, magazines and e-learning material, according to a Eurostat annual survey on information and communication technologies (ICT) use in households and individual consumers, published yesterday.Buying books, magazines or e-learning material online was most common in Luxembourg, with 47% of those surveyed declaring to have done it, and Germany, where 41% of those who participated said they had bought these kind of products online in 2012. Just over a third of those in Sweden (38%) ...


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