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08-26-2010, 02:51 AM | #33 |
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I prefer "genius," but I'm not sure the experts would all agree
Actually, I think I just always require input of some sort. I even read the shampoo bottles while taking a shower. Maybe "print whore" is more accurate? |
08-26-2010, 04:31 AM | #34 | |
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In another thread, a poster provided the following link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...277291226.html While the article itself is about pricing, it does mention this: Quote:
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08-26-2010, 04:41 AM | #35 |
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08-26-2010, 04:42 AM | #36 | |
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I'm an avid reader, maybe 100 eBooks per year. But I hardly ever read at airports. 90% of my flights are business trips. Usually I'm just too busy or tired to read at the airport or on the plane. My guess would be, most of the reading happens "privately". Of my friends and colleagues, I'd estimate about 40% being readers by your definition. But only a tiny minority seems to be reading eBooks. I see far more eBook readers in the US than in Germany...probably because of Gutenberg... Last edited by mgmueller; 08-26-2010 at 04:47 AM. |
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09-07-2010, 09:13 AM | #38 |
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Research for an article I wrote several years ago (data therefore aging by the minute) about the book publishing business. Frightening.
Readers 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42% of college graduates never read another book after college. 80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years. 57% of new books are not read to completion. 70% of books published do not earn back their advance. 70% of the books published do not make a profit. (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroup.com) (Source: www.bookwire.com) A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies. (Source: Authors Guild, www.authorsguild.org) Quantity of Publishers by Year1947: 357 publishers Book in Print1973: 3,000 publishers 1980: 12,000 publishers. (The New York Times, February 23, 1981.) 1994: 52,847 publishers. (Books in Print.) 2003: Estimated 73,000 publishers (parapublishing.com) 1.5+ million titles in print (currently available in the U.S.)
Since 1776, 22 million titles have been published. (Source: Jerold Jenkins, 15 May 99. http://www.JenkinsGroup.com US) |
09-07-2010, 09:48 AM | #39 |
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The French Ministry of Culture publishes a very comprehensive survey every 10 years or so. The latest one was in 2008, and the results (in French) can be found here.
From a quick look at the books section: 30% of the total population has read no book in the last 12 months 27% 1-4 books 12% 5-9 15% 10-19 11% 20-49 5% more than 50 In all, 16% read 20 books or more in the last 12 months (men 13%, women 18%). 59% regularly read a magazine (men 56, women 62) 29% read a paying daily newspaper almost every day (men 32, women 26) |
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I'm a bookworm (several books a week) but I rarely read in airports or on airplanes. Airports are generally just too annoying, and I'd rather watch them pushing the planes around on the tarmac anyway. In planes, if it's daytime I'll look down (I insist on window seats and love figuring out what's underneath me) and if it's night/cloudy I'll fall asleep. Only rarely do I read. So if you were counting me, you'd definitely mark me down as a non-reader 90% of the time, although there's a 505 tucked away in my stuff. Get me to a hotel or something, on the other hand, and the 505 comes out, and I'll probably fall asleep with the lights on, still clutching it ... but you don't see that part.
Just about everyone I know reads, and reads a lot. This is, of course, an example of self-selection: people who don't read are too boring to know. |
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I don't know where I would fall in the statistics. I am certainly what was called a "print whore". Reading is a compulsion with me and I hate that I can't manage to read in the shower. I do read while cleaning teeth, while sitting on the throne and while cooking.
But I don't read just books. I subscribe to a whole lot of magazines, many with pretty weighty articles. And I read a lot more on-line. I don't think I read more than 50 books a year on average. I have only just acquired an ereader and I suppose I am doing what many people do at this stage: loading a few books I've read before. So that doesn't even count as reading new books. Or does it? No-one else seems to have mentioned it. |
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Where we live the population isn't that well educated, so my guess based upon watching others in waiting rooms across the area is probably less than 5% are reading something (including newspapers). Both my husband and I come from a family of readers, and most holidays we bring along books to exchange with the family "pile." We also have four children (ages 12, 14, 17 and 18) and they are all "readers." Even our just-graduated daughter continues to be a reader (and continues to write, thankfully).
My mother was a middle school English teacher for many years...we grew up with piles of books next to big comfy chairs. That has always been my normal. |
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