Bowker stats bookreaders
From Mary Ann Gwinn:
More than 40 percent of Americans over the age of 13 purchased a book; the average age of the American book buyer is 42.Women make 64 percent of all book purchases, even among detective stories and thrillers, where they buy more than 60 percent of that genre.
Thirty two percent of the books purchased in 2009 were from households earning less than $32,000 annually. A fifth of those sales were for children’s books.
The biggest nonfiction genre is biography and autobiography.
