Sentences with phrase «book reading population»

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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.

De Silva, who made the switch from astrophysics to biology, first got exposure to biology on the statistics end of a genetic - population project, which prompted him to read those biology books by moonlight.

The problem faced in this village is the limited economic impact on the population's lack of interest in reading books.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

There was a similar change with the general population, with the number of people who read e-books rising in 2014 to 28 % (an increase of 7 %), and a drop in printed book readers to 69 % from 2011's 71 % (Zickuhr & Rainey, 2014).

In their research based on student polling, they found that in populations aged 12 - 17, 78 % of frequent readers who read books for fun 5 - 7 times per week are provided time and choice in contrast to the 24 % of the infrequent readers who are not provided time or choice.

The provision of investment is an acute need, due to the perceived crisis in the domestic book publishing and book selling industry, as well as the decline of interest in reading among the local population.

Surveys have shown that most people only read average of six books per year, and only four percent of the population read four or more books per month.

The above rate is least surprising considering about three - fourth of the German population reads books.

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

And while we aren't saying goodbye to print just yet, it does seem like there are going to be swaths of the population in a few short years who simply have never read a print book.

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.

If not, you're missing out on marketing your book to a huge segment of the population who enjoys reading books and who are constantly scouring social media for the next great read.

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Authors like Judith Glynn who took the risk on an investment of that size are still struggling to put their books in front of Spanish - speaking readers, largely because less than half of the reported Spanish speaking population in the US reads books in Spanish, according to a post by Publisher's Weekly.

Tanaka revealed that despite the fact that the U.S. has a significantly larger population than Japan, Japan has four times as many book stores as the U.S. JManga's goal is to give readers in the United States the opportunity that the Japanese have, to read a wide variety of titles.

Assuming that the population using Page Flip purely as a navigational tool is larger than the population actually reading books in that mode, what they did probably makes a lot of sense.

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.

RVers probably aren't the only «hidden» population of eBook buyers — publishers and writers alike would be well served to consider the alternative lifestyles that are embracing the technologies that make reading — and keeping — a lot of books in a very tiny space worthwhile.

While I believe that this number will go down as more and more Americans familiarize themselves with reading on digital devices like tablets, it goes to show just how much of the population is still wedded to our old friend, the printed book.

Except that only half the population reads books.

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.

Nowadays it's the rise of the Smart Phone and all those apps that are further eroding the reading of books for recreation and continues to shrink the percentage of the population that reads / buys books — and therefore decreases the revenues that magazines and journals can derive from the publishing of book review columns.

While young adults prefer reading fiction over nonfiction, the older population of the country, aged 55 and above, mostly opts for nonfiction books,» says Brijesh Kumar Choubey, a lead analyst at Technavio for retail goods and services.

If 8 % of the US population owns a tablet, and 12 % of the population owns an ereader, and 20 % of the people in book groups use one or the other to read their book group's selection each month, what does that mean for demand of ebooks?

Text to Speech The use of the text to speech function for most people is debatable, but there's a huge population of partially sited users in the world who'll be able to plug their headphones into the Kindle and have the device read their books to them.

Mitigating, but while the color models are doomed (or will be thinly veiled tablets, the way the Nook Color is heading), but the e-ink models aren't going anywhere, backlit screens are uncomfortable to read by a decent chunk of the population (completely aside from the ability to finish a book before the battery dies).

In general, device owners who read both print books and e-books as of December 2011 are very similar to the overall population of print and e-book readers when discussing which book format is better for different situations, slightly favoring e-books for most of the scenarios presented.

The yearly Amazon Charts book discovery tool also includes an interesting interactive map of the United States that shows this year's top 10 reading hotspots, as measured by Kindle reads per state population.

Overall, e-book reading device owners read more books in a year than the general population.

Not all e-reading device owners read e-books, but in general they do so at a much higher rate than the general population; they are also more likely to read in general, and to read a book on a typical day.

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.

Although 92 % of the population is a smartphone user and the number of new book titles is 40 000 a year, there are many other things to do on a gadget than to read.

While he sees «a bit of hand - wringing, still, on the digital dark side,» seven years into the digital disruption of publishing, «ink - and - paper books continue to be the favorite, not only the way for the population as a whole but for our kids to read.»

If you read one book you will probably be a head of 80 percent of the population.

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-- Raising Readers: Books Are for Everyone, a reading - appreciation initiative that offers programs and free books to underserved populations as provided by the National Book Foundation and the Department of Youth and Community DevelopBooks Are for Everyone, a reading - appreciation initiative that offers programs and free books to underserved populations as provided by the National Book Foundation and the Department of Youth and Community Developbooks to underserved populations as provided by the National Book Foundation and the Department of Youth and Community Development.

When not interrupted by agriculture, territorial encroachment and modernization, foraging cultures have a much lower impact on the environment than modern cultures, and their populations can also be quite stable (for a popular reference, read some of Jared Diamond's books).

If you read his book you will find that he feels that the only effective way to deal with the problems of much of the world's population is through businesses that make profit.

I haven't read the whole book quite yet, but I did do a quick scan to see how they covered population issues.

In the course of reading the book you learn a great deal about how population and consumption have changed over time.

Without having read the Farnish book, I'd hazard a guess that he and Hansen don't advocate active genocide, just that world population has to be reduced somehow.

If you're concerned — or curious — about global warming, global flattening and global population growth and how they are creating the Energy - Climate Era, then read this book.

Dr. Lomborg was leafing through an issue of Wired magazine and started reading an interview with Dr. Julian L. Simon, a University of Maryland economist who argued in several books that population was unlikely to outrun natural resources.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reorganized the cataloguing system, making the process 58 % less cumbersome to perform than before • Rearranged the entire library's books into a «by author» sequence, as opposed to the cumbersome first in, first shelved basis • Successfully arranged and led a series of in - house reading sessions for 6 year olds for a local community school • Suggested acquisition of Braille materials to cater to and encourage blind population to make good use of library services

After reading this book, practitioners will be able to PROVIDE MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO ADDICTED POPULATIONS because they will know what to do and why to do it.