[LMB] reader stats

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com>
> Date: 01 February 2008 18:15
> 
> In the never-ending department of How do people read, anyway?, another 
> query...
> 
> We've heard, with the reliability of any other internet statistic, that 
> about 20% of the readers in the romance genre are men.  Has anyone done 
> a comparable survey ("the plural of anecdote is not data") to find out 
> what percentage of the men's adventure fiction genre readers are women?
> 
> Curious, L.

Does Patrick O'Brian count as "adventure fiction" (which is where my
library shelves it) ?

If so we already have a few data points in the "Recommendation" thread.

Plenty of female readers of Dick Francis too - or does it have to be Clancy
type or gun porn ?

Litle Egret