<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a3deb9f2-632d-4f18-ab1c-bc9e4508c138/74D0C356-E7B0-494C-A9A1-35E38FE40F89/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html" href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readforpleasure.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html"><P>similar percentages of women and men read sci fi (28% and 31%), and that 10% of men read romance. More education goes hand in hand with higher likelihood of reading for pleasure, in any genre. The West and Northeast read a lot in general, but the Northeast doesn't read much romance. The South reads the least overall, but reads the most romance.<BR /></P><BR /><TABLE id="Tbl"><CAPTION><SPAN>Percentage of U.S. adults who read all fiction, science fiction, and romance</SPAN></CAPTION><TBODY><TR><TH></TH><TH>Read fiction<SUP><A href="#Ref1">1</A></SUP></TH><TH>Read sci fi<SUP><A href="#Ref2">2</A></SUP></TH><TH>Read romance<SUP><A href="#Ref3">3</A></SUP><BR /></TH></TR><TR><TH align="left">All</TH><TD>47%</TD><TD>30%</TD><TD>22%<BR /></TD></TR><TR><TD>Women</TD><TD>55%</TD><TD>28%</TD><TD>34%<BR /></TD></TR><TR><TD>Men</TD><TD>38%</TD><TD>31%</TD><TD>10%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html"><H4>Less reading, more genre</H4><SPAN id="fullpost">The number of reading adults is shrinking, particularly in fiction, but romance looks healthy.<BR /><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086119191704443730" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_j59npxAenFo/RpWGdRrXG1I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/cWV53_lDrtI/s320/WhoReadsGenreFic_Trends.jpg" /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html"><H4>Explosion of fanfic?</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html">the number of people doing creative writing increased by 30 percent, from 11 million in 1982 to more than 14 million in 2002 [especially among 18- to 24-year-olds].</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/who-reads-genre-fiction.html">Back to <A href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html">last week's post on reading</A>, is enjoyment of writing a good sign for enjoyment of reading? I don't know.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74D0C356-E7B0-494C-A9A1-35E38FE40F89/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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