Amazing Stats - Post #3

I'm a, you can say, avid reader. I like to read books, magazines, articles, blogs and everything with letters in it. And to look at these stats is kinda disappointing.

• 58% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42% of college graduates never read another book after college.
• * 80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• * 70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• * 57% of new books are not read to completion.
• * Most readers don't get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.
• * A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
• * A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
• * A New York Times bestseller sells 250,000 copies.
• * On average, a bookstore browser spends 8 seconds looking at a book's front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover.
• * Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.