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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Don't know why it should surprise you. It is no secret that recreational reading is a minority hobby. These numbers are a few years old, but:
http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html
I can't find stats on the number of times a movie is watched in a year (in all ways-- at the theater, DVD rental, streaming, premium cable, over-the-air) but I have no doubt that it is an order of magnitude above the number of times a book is read. |
Ah, but that's a rather US centric view
Unfortunately in this case, Overdrive and HC operate internationally.... Looking at some more stats:
In France, during the year before
these stats were published, 70% of the population had read at least one book (which says very little about the median amount of books read per person).
I just read some stats claiming that 90% of the Dutch population reads books (
Dutch though).