Okay, sojourns around the interweb (which is actually a series of tubes -- according to Senator Ted Stevens) led me to the following... Courtesy of Erma Bombeck...
The following statistics about book publishing and reading were found on
www.parapub.com, the Web site of self-publishing guru Dan Poynter. They'll give you an idea of what you're up against if you want to write books for a living.
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 per cent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 per cent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.**
70 per cent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
Source:
Erma Bombeck!
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