Here some fun facts from the folks over at Amazon.com. This morning they announced thier list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America. After compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since Jan. 1, 2011, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents, the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities are:
| 1. Cambridge, Mass. | 11. Knoxville, Tenn. | ||||||||
| 2. Alexandria, Va. | 12. Orlando, Fla. | ||||||||
| 3. Berkeley, Calif. | 13. Pittsburgh | ||||||||
| 4. Ann Arbor, Mich. | 14. Washington, D.C. | ||||||||
| 5. Boulder, Colo. | 15. Bellevue, Wash. | ||||||||
| 6. Miami | 16. Columbia, S.C. | ||||||||
| 7. Salt Lake City | 17. St. Louis, Mo. | ||||||||
| 8. Gainesville, Fla. | 18. Cincinnati | ||||||||
| 9. Seattle | 19. Portland, Ore. | ||||||||
| 10. Arlington, Va. | 20. Atlanta | ||||||||
In Taking a Closer Look, Amazon Also Found
- Not only do they like to read, but they like to know the facts: Cambridge, Mass.–home to the prestigious Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology–also topped the list of cities that ordered the most nonfiction books.
- Boulder, Colo., lives up to its reputation as a healthy city by topping the list of cities that order the most books in the Cooking, Food & Wine category.
- Alexandria, Va., residents must be reading a lot of bedtime stories – they topped the list of the city that orders the most children’s books.
- Summer reading weather all year long? Florida was the state with the most cities in the Top 20, with Miami, Gainesville and Orlando making the list.
