Sentences with phrase «us reading population»

It's also possible that nobody was thinking of ebooks when writing this directive: in 2009, they were still a pretty niche market (I don't have figures for the EU, this site states that only 2 % of the US reading population had an e-book reader in 2009).

Cruddas points out well about how bad it is that you have to be charismatic to do well in politics these days, else woster woman and the dailymail reading population won't even listen to you.

If I am stupid enough to limit myself to one or two formats simply because those are what I personally choose to read, I am missing out on an entire segment of the reading population, and that's just shooting myself in the foot.

In a move that's sure to tick off... well, everyone... Amazon has released another list of cities that purport to have the most well - read populations.

As always with eBooks, the situation is constantly evolving, and whether an application sinks or swims is entirely dependent on just how helpful the (voracious) eBook - reading population finds it.

Even the absolute best selling books — that sell 2 or 3 million copies in a year — only penetrate about 3 % of the reading population.

As a reader, I prefer hardbound books, but the current reading population is aging (like me, unfortunately) and is being replaced by a generation which grew up digital and online.

It is also important to note that the overall reading population in the US is massive.

Tablets seem to be the most popular with over 50 % of the reading population owning one and e-readers themselves account for 30 %.

Now there's always some blowback on novellas because invariably there's a segment of the reading population who always wants a novel and feels shortchanged by anything else — no matter how well you mark it in the description and everywhere else THIS IS A NOVELLA.

All of these capabilities help to ensure that entire segments of the reading population have their book needs met, as well as help educational institutions meet the needs of student learners in a much more accessible, cost effective way.

And for a large portion of the reading population, that may be the case; browse for a book on your favorite retailer's site, click the Buy button, and wait for your book to appear on your small screen.

Authors whose work is not for sale in that format risk missing a large and growing segment of the reading population.

Well, I'm sure the larger - screen Kindle will rescue the concept of reading newspapers for some segment of the reading population (I'll get back to you as soon as I figure out which segment of the reading population that is, exactly).

But in general, your chances as straight white male of writing a book with character that can be identified with to a large section of the US English reading population are higher, and Alex Dally McFarlane will have to go on dreaming of all books suddenly not having binary gender as a norm.

As the reading population, logic states, is a reflection of the demographics of the total population, and maybe 10 - 15 % of that group could count as left wing.

«New micropresses, small presses, and niche presses (like Marcher Lord Press) will meet the needs of many segments of the reading population that are not being served by the increasingly narrow and conservative titles that will be released by the major publishing companies.»

Not only are readers spending more on e-books, the e-book reading population is growing, and it's growing fast.

Unsurprisingly, the nine in ten device owners who read any sort of book in the last year are also much more likely to have read an e-book in the last year than the general reading population; they are also more likely to have listened to an audiobook.

I had a feeling of deja vu when I read the population rebuttal.

Not exact matches

By comparison, only two percent of the general population reads this much on a daily basis.

«Seattle is a city of great prosperity that has experienced tremendous growth of its economy and population,» the draft read.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

Again, there is a large percentage of the population that prefers watching to reading.

If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.

Canadian and Alberta voters need to understand that every time you get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all you need to do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon you will realize the propaganda and hate these clowns spread about their own political / religious views trying to scare the general population to their side or views.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

Saying the majority of the population back then was Jewish is like someone reading the Issac Asimov 2,000 years from now and believing World War II was fought between Androids and Aliens.

If you read the bible in Hieroglyphics then maybe you would say the Egyptians were the major population, and again you would be wrong.

I decided years ago not to be one of those people that reads news like this and assumes the entire population is involved.

It's impossible for you to read the minds of the populations under those non-democracies.

The definitions and descriptions in the article are salient; especially, the «Psychopaths» and «Almost Psychopaths» definitions and «as percentage of population» (~ 1 % and an estimated 10 - 15 %, respectively) were important to help discuss some issues generally, and specifically to this post and the thread (though I haven't read anything in the last month or so).

YANK33Z: Read the article again in 20 years the population of Muslims is more the doubled to 4.6 % from 2 % not.002 % and rule is when the populatio reaches 10 % they demand seprate laws and start a revolution for Homeland

All those within Torah Musa, Zabor Dawoud, Angeel Issa out of which brewed out of it the soul thing of pure faith that God was not not begotten, God is Single and not Plural, God has no Mistress, God has No Begotten Son, God may Chose Any as Sons from his creations with out need to beget sons through the means he created for mankind to increase population... All Prophets and Messengers spoke the Words of God as he put his words to their mouths... they were the words of God... Now please read with me the verses even if for general informations only;

With all due respect, if you'd read the actual study, you would see that this was not a whole genome sequence comparison; rather it was a comparison of mitochondrial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences for the purposes of confirming the species relationship between the Pod Mrcaru lizards (P. sicula), the source population from Pod Kopiste (also P. sicula), and the original indigenous population on Pod Mrcaru (P. mellisellensis).

Moses, I agree, the use of statues are obsolete, since the majority of the worlds population can read the bible.

You can have your thirteenth - century papacy, but only on the condition that less that 5 percent of the population can read.

Leaving women to pursue domestic piety through Bible reading is like forbidding a restive population to carry weapons while giving them unrestricted access to gasoline and matches.

This is primarily the function of the study of geography — not mainly as a learning of place names, populations, and products and a drawing and reading of maps and charts, but as a responsible consideration of the earth as mankind's home.

Frankly, I'm not sure these studies are accurate, since up until the last one hundred years or so, the majority of the population of the world was unable to read or write.

I'm not claiming that we are smart and they are not, or that no arguments can be had, although a miniscule portion of the population reads, knows, or cares about such arguments.

From a national population sample, the poll found that those who watch religious television programs compared to those who don't watch religious television programs are more likely to have had a conversion experience, to believe that the bible is free of mistakes, to believe in a personal devil, to read the bible more often, to talk to others about their faith more often, to attend church services more frequently, and to hold to or engage in beliefs and practices characteristic of evangelicals as a whole.

I read about za'atar a couple of years ago, and as I had recently moved to a big - city neighborhood with a large middle - eastern population, I went to one of our local grocery stores and asked for it by name.

It reads, «Ensuring environmentally sustainable ethical food production for the world's growing population.»

1) Only a small percentage of the population read the current back - of - pack nutrition information panels and even fewer understand it.

I can understand how this kind of story sells papers by the million and I understand that this is how the The Sun and The News of the World and the Daily Mirror operate, hell I even understand that to a very large extent they do so because that is what a large proportion of the population wants to read, sick as it might sound there are people who really get off on this stuff.

I once read something by some sociology academic that basically said that it only takes 10 % of a population to start perpetrating and promoting a myth on a regular basis before it quickly becomes an «accepted fact» by the general population, and many of the remaining 90 % will happily trawl out the party line like dumb sheep.

I know it's popular to think of movies where Floyd is sharing his cell with a hardened criminal and having to worry about being shanked, but it's much more likely that he spends a bunch of time away from general population, being kept safe and probably watching TV and reading his days away.

Australia arguably has one of the most health - conscious populations in the world, so it makes sense that the citizens of the... Read More