Thank you for this detailed response. Facts are important as well as people like you who are willing to encourage others to think deeply about this issue & hopefully something will change. Here are some
more facts I discovered last March about global reading habits. They need to add the info. you shared.
https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/public-life/book-reading-behavior
nice doc. focused on usa, but it gives a fair clue. it can be deduced, for example, that not even 30% of brazilians read a single book per year, which probably must be even lower as north americans read 12.6 books per year. so it’s probably 15% to 20% here, proportionally.
Thank you. You’re right— I should have prefaced my response with the study focuses on the US — but my brain found & centered itself around the small parts of the study where other countries were mentioned. For example, I am curious why certain countries read more (unrelated to work) books— and that part grabbed my attention. I appreciate your data analysis! Anyway— I’m really interested in the Z-Library & what will happen. Keep sharing if you see any updates. And thanks again!
nah, thank you for sharing such infos. besides usa (and here we’d have to check which areas of usa — what if NY alone represents 80% of all that?), they are all old world’s northern countries. thus: tradition. but mainly: massari. tradition + money = education. and back we are to the well educated ones.
Very true. I appreciate how you think deeply— analyzing the research itself is important. I wonder if the people involved with the Z-Library even think critically about who reads—does it matter to them when profit is involved? If authors/publishers are losing a small percentage of profits— isn’t there a solution.
