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Old 09-04-2016, 10:47 AM   #9
SteveEisenberg
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This was a very small survey.
1,520 live calls is more than most polls.

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they asked for the youngest adult at home.
In the 25 percent that was land-line calls, yes.

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Similarly, the focus on single-book readers without context (was that one book read a regular occurrence or an accident, was it choice or homework?) biases the results towards the practices of students and casual readers rather than regular book buyers.
What about non-casual readers who use libraries almost exclusively?

This wasn't a study geared towards people who market novels. If someone starts a trade organization and funds a study that focuses on the kind of readers you think can be your direct or indirect customers, we can have a thread on that. Maybe we already have!

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Any poll can be skewed.
And any umpire can be played.
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