[LMB] OT: Books per year

[James Nicoll]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jim Parish wrote:

> James Nicoll wrote:
>>  	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).
>
> Hmmm. Is there reason to believe that the rate at which books are
> *read* is close to the rate at which they are *bought*?
>
 	Good point. I mean, we don't even know that the books that are 
bought are ever read. I know I never finished my CRC Handbook: the whole 
thing is one long infodump and the plot is thin at best.