[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules

[Elvi Dalgaard]

James Nicoll wrote:
>  	If the average American reads 2 books a year and fantasy accounts 
> for 4%  of the market, then on average the reader will encounter one 
> fantasy book about once every decade (and since everyone seems to be 
> reading Harry Potter, that's, what, an entire lifetime's worth of fantasy 
> right there?).
>   
Seriously? Is that a real statistic? TWO books a year? I'm thinking that 
there are probably not a lot of people in the middle of that 
distribution. Probably there are tons who don't read at all, and then 
the readers, who almost all read a lot more than two books a year.

Elvi