“On average, fewer than half of the books tested were finished by a majority of readers. Most readers typically give up on a book in the early chapters. Women tend to quit after 50 to 100 pages, men after 30 to 50. Only 5 percent of the books Jellybooks tested were completed by more than 75 percent of readers. Sixty percent of books fell into a range where 25 percent to 50 percent of test readers finished them. Business books have surprisingly low completion rates.” – Moneyball for Book Publishers: A Detailed Look at How We Read
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“The UK pulps millions of books a year. The resultant slurry turns into cardboard boxes, or into streets – according to Tarmac, who use pulp to bind their road surfaces, 45,000 books go into every mile of motorway.” – Pulp fiction? Not while I can still hang on to a box or two of my old books