Lending and Buying – Lenders and Buyers

Check out this post from Eric Hellman:

Book Lending Ignorance

via Go To Hellman

http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-lending-ignorance.html

Some pullquotes and stats that I found interesting:

The  US book publishing industry is worth about $40 billion.

“The average American borrowed 8.1 items from public libraries in 2009.”

“According to BookStats, a cooperative study by the AAP and BISG, Americans bought an average of 7.32 books in
2010.”

“Library Journal has recently published the first installment of results from a fascinating survey of library patrons. (Aside: this study should be made available in every library!) They find that 46% of respondents use the public library less than 2 times per year.”

“The LJ Patron Profiles survey shows a strong relationship between library use and book purchasing. For example, over half of survey respondents report buying a book by an author whose works they’d previously borrowed from the library.”

“It costs about 11 billion dollars a year to run public libraries in the US”

Stephen