Book stats

Started by TehBorken, Jul 08 06 05:48

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TehBorken

 Some interesting stats on books from [a href="vny!://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm"]ParaPublishing[/a]. In my opinion, a lot of these stats are really sad.

[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Who is Reading Books (and who is not)

33% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school.

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.

42% of college graduates never read another book.

80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.

70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

57% of new books are not read to completion.
  --Jerrold Jenkins.
[a href="vny!://www.JenkinsGroup.com"]vny!://www.JenkinsGroup.com[/a]


Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.

63% of adults report purchasing at least one book during the previous three-month period. (Most were probably exaggerating).
  --Bookselling This Week, November 10, 1997.
[a href="vny!://news.bookweb.org/"]vny!://news.bookweb.org/[/a]


53% read fiction, 43% nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is mystery & Suspense, 19%.
  --Publishers Weekly, May 12, 1997, page 13.
[a href="vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com"]vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com[/a]


Of the top fifty books, fiction outsells nonfiction about 60% to 40%. Fiction peaks in July at 70% but nonfiction reaches almost 50% in December.
  --USA Today, April 30, 1999.
[a href="vny!://www.USAtoday.com"]vny!://www.USAtoday.com[/a]


55% of fiction is bought by women; 45% by men.
  --Publishers Weekly, May 12, 1997, page 13.

Thirty percent of Americans surveyed by the Harris Poll say they would rather read a book than do anything else; twenty-one percent said watching TV is their favorite activity. That's the good news. The bad news is that only 13 percent selected "spending time with family.
  --Publishers Weekly email Daily, July 9, 1998.
[a href="vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com"]vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com[/a]


Each day, people in the US spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.
  --Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
[a href="vny!://www.veronissuhler.com"]vny!://www.veronissuhler.com[/a]


70% of Americans haven't visited a bookstore in five (5) years.
  --Michael Levine, June 2002
[a href="vny!://www.LevinPR.com"]vny!://www.LevinPR.com[/a]


Customers 55 and older account for more than one-third of all books bought.
  --2001 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing by the Book Industry Study Group,
[a href="vny!://www.bisg.org"]vny!://www.bisg.org[/a]


People reduced their time reading between 1996 and 2001 to 2.1 hours/month.
2001: per capita spending on books per month was $7.18.
  --Publishers Weekly, May 26, 2003
[a href="vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com"]vny!://www.PublishersWeekly.com[/a]


Only 32% of the U.S. population has ever been in a bookstore.
  --David Godine, Publisher.

The time Americans spend reading books.
1996: 123 hours
2001: 109 hours
  --Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
[a href="vny!://www.veronissuhler.com"]vny!://www.veronissuhler.com[/a]
 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

weird al

lol, too long to read. Could somebody condense it down for me? ;)