[LMB] Touchy list -- I blame publishing schedules

Countryboy countryboy66 at mchsi.com
Fri Jun 1 23:13:23 BST 2007


> 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?).
And Elvi replied:
> 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.

Heck I read more than two books a week.  A lot of the time I read two books 
at the same time, sometimes three.

Countryboy - softball again tonight if the rain holds off. 





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