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A Special Relationship? A comparison of consumer book buying habits and trends in the United States and Great Britain

Published by: R.R. Bowker LLC

Published: Oct. 12, 2009 - 20 Pages


Table of Contents


Introduction

Background

Methodology

1 Bookmarket size and growth

Total market (consumer and institutional)

Consumer market

2 Book buyers

Gender of buyer

Age of buyer

Socio-economic status of buyer

3 Book types bought

Categories bought

Fiction genres bought

Non-fiction genres bought

Genre growth

Formats bought

Format within category

4 Book buyers within category

Gender of buyer within category

Age of buyer within category

Socio-economics of buyer within category

5 Sources of book purchase

6 Reasons for buying books

How buyers become aware of books

Reasons for purchase/purchase prompts

Books bought as gifts

Further information

Abstract

BML monitors consumer book purchases in Britain via its Books & Consumers survey. Bowker tracks US consumer book purchases via its PubTrack Consumer survey.

This report compares the results of the two surveys. In 2008, the US consumer market was around ten times the size of its UK equivalent, but a higher proportion of British than US consumers bought books.

Book buyers in each country were similar in terms of gender and age, but slightly more ‘up market’ in the US than Britain. Adult fiction and hardbacks accounted for a higher proportion of book purchases in the US than in Britain, but with variations in the mix of genres bought.

Chain bookshops remained the largest channel for book purchases in Britain, despite losing share in recent years.

The internet overtook the chains in the US in 2008, with Britain around three years behind in terms of internet share.

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