[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules

[Elvi Dalgaard]

James Nicoll wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Elvi Dalgaard wrote:
>   
>> 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
>  	It's fairly close: there are 330 million people in the North
> American part of l'anglosphere and they bought 663 million books in the 
> most recent year for which I have figures (2003).
>   
Oh, "bought". Well, I'm not sure we can assume that bought=read. There 
are a lot of variables there, after all. There are libraries, and 
friends and family members who lend you books, and on the other side 
there are books bought that don't get read for one reason or another.

Out of curiosity, where can the stats be found? I did a bit of googling 
on things like "american reading statistics", and didn't get a lot of 
hard data.

Elvi