European Children's Bookstore Conference: Internet-Generation Readers

"By the time these young adults were born, the Internet had been fully commercialized for about five years. Amazon was already the largest site for online shopping, rapidly pushing brick-and-mortar stores out of business. As preschoolers, they saw Google introduce its Gmail and Maps services, making it the most widely used search engine on the web. Facebook opened itself up to users beyond the university campus, and before this generation even entered secondary education, smartphones had become ubiquitous."