Thread: Amazon's 2nd Annual "Most Well-Read Cities in America"
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Old 05-16-2012, 10:31 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by LisaPT View Post
I've not read the small print, but I would imagine this is just the cities with the most number of people buying from Amazon. As a resident (not a collage student) in Ann Arbor, I can tell you that we also have two independent bookstores (both with wonderful owners/sales people), a B&N (we used to have 3 Borders -- sigh), and uncounted used bookstores. And Ann Arbor is a pretty small city -- the entire population could fit in UM's football stadium with room to spare.

If there really was a contest for the most books read, I'd say bring it!
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The ranking was determined by compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents.
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