03-19-2008, 07:02 PM | #1 |
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BusinessWeek: Significant increase in e-book sales in 2007
According to this week's print edition of Business Week (March 24, 2008), e-book sales increased 59% in 2007 over 2006 based on wholesale U.S. revenues of trade book publishers. That's a significant increase, particularly when compared to the less-than-stellar increase (actually a slight decline) in p-book sales.
Also of interest are these statistics from the same page: Americans ages 20-34 spend on average 10 minutes a day reading for pleasure. Those 35-44 spend about 13 minutes; 45-54 spend about 19 minutes; 55-64 spend about 32 minutes; and 65-74 spend about 46 minutes. |
03-19-2008, 07:27 PM | #2 |
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the increase in sales is encouraging. maybe content will start to follow.
as for the decrease in minutes of reading per day, i wonder if it's more because the older generations were brought up with the idea of recreational reading (in which case the decline is alarming), or because students / working people have less free time for *anything* than retired people (in which case again the increase is encouraging...). i know in my case, work gets in the way of a *lot* of things i would rather do... |
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zelda, you will find as you get older and you need to wear a bib to soak-up that unintentioned saliva dribbling from your mouth [ not yours personally you understand ], that the only physical activity you can indulge in is...reading. This simply involves ensuring that the eyelids are prised open and that the eyeballs have some residual movement. I assure you it has nothing to do with ideas or habits, simply age and the availability of time. |
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03-19-2008, 10:23 PM | #4 |
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what an apt yet witty reply, old chap ! have some karma...
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So by "reading for pleasure" are they counting online reading? I probably spend more than 13 minutes here most days, plus I have other news sites, blogs and forums that I read on pretty much a daily basis before we even start counting time I spend with paper media or my Kindle.
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03-26-2008, 09:04 AM | #13 |
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I find these statistics, as worded here, unbelievable. Surely Americans ages 20-34 spend much more than 10 minutes a day reading for pleasure--for instance, reading blogs, websites, online newspapers, emails, etc. Or does this specifically mean reading books?
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03-26-2008, 09:54 AM | #14 |
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I suspect that this just means there is a huge range between some pleasure readers (like me, 2-3 hours a day) and others ("Pfft! I never read, man!"), and the guys like you and me are seriously outnumbered, which brings the average numbers down pretty low.
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