Thursday Thirteen 21: Statistics About Romance Books Readers

13 Aug 2008 by Shoshana

It’s no secret that I have a thing going with book. Just take a look at the number of books I’ve read. I don’t read as much as I used to because I have five children, and other business to manage plus I get to do my own cleaning, cooking and laundry. Not to mention, my office desk seem to have life of its own, and birth control is not one of it’s virtue. I’d better sort these papers soon before I ran out of space.

Thirteen Things about Shoshana’s thing about books. Stat year is from 2007, I think.

1. 64.6 million Americans read at least one romance novel in the past year.
2. 29% of the Southern population reads romance
3. 78% of romance readers are female
4. 50% of romance readers are married
5. 22% are between the ages of 35-44
6. 42% have a bachelor’s degree or higher
7. 2% have read between 51 and 100 books
8. 36 % bought their book new
9. 25% checked their book out from a library
10. Mystery, Thriller, Action plots preferred by 48% of readers
11. 53% of readers prefer covers that are either abstract or romantic
12. 35% of readers prefer sedate and abstract covers
13. 12% of readers prefer romantic covers

Statistics from Romance Writers of America.

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Susan Helene Gottfried says:

August 14, 2008 at 5:01 am

Ahh, romances. Those much maligned stories that are a heck of a lot of fun and that hold the publishing business up.

Can you tell I dig them? I do. I’m a big fan, even if they don’t make up the bulk of my own reading.

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PopArtDiva says:

August 14, 2008 at 11:51 am

My mother loved romance novels – especially Janet Daily (sp?). She bought so many she had to keep a list so she wouldn’t buy the same book twice,lol.

I have to admit that I would read those books too in those days. Now I just don’t have time to read for pleasure much and when I do it’s usually sci-fi or Stephen King, .

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Hootin' Anni says:

August 15, 2008 at 5:46 am

I’m Southern, but I have only read ONE romance…and that was [well TWO if you include GWTW of course, but I think that's a given!] The one I’ve read over and over is Thorn Birds.

Thanks for stopping by yesterday for my T-13. We had storms here, and in turn our computer was unplugged all day so I didn’t get a chance to get any visiting done.

Have a terrific weekend!!

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