WHAT CITIES READ the most? Gearing up for summer reading list sales, retail giant Amazon.com has released its list of “Most Well-Read Cities in America,” which is a ranking based on its own sales data.
According to a campaign press release from Amazon.com, the retailer's “Most Well-Read Cities” ranking considers print and Kindle book and periodical sales since June 1, 2011 “on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents.”
Just for fun, PJ Library offers some of its own “reader” data to join that of Amazon.com. Of course, our PJ Library is a bit more straightforward — we merely list the total number of enrollments (past and present) for each of the cities listed in Amazon’s top 20 “Most Well-Read” list.
AMAZON'S 20 MOST WELL-READ CITIES
Below are the 20 most well-read cities, according to Amazon.com’s metrics. Alongside those city names are the total number of families in each of those cities to have enjoyed free Jewish children's books from PJ Library.
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Amazon.com's 'Most Well-Read Cities' |
Corresponding PJ Library Enrollments |
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1. |
Alexandria, VA |
274 |
2. |
Cambridge, MA |
295 |
3. |
Berkeley, CA |
703 |
4. |
Ann Arbor, MI |
343 |
5. |
Boulder, CO |
313 |
6. |
Miami, FL |
1,434 |
7. |
Arlington, VA |
353 |
8. |
Gainesville, FL |
155 |
9. |
Washington, DC |
380 |
10. |
Salt Lake City, UT |
151 |
11. |
Pittsburgh, PA |
1,201 |
12. |
Knoxville, TN |
124 |
13. |
Seattle, WA |
1,184 |
14. |
Orlando, FL |
199 |
15. |
Columbia, SC |
121 |
16. |
Bellevue, WA |
160 |
17. |
Cincinnati, OH |
602 |
18. |
St. Louis, MO |
969 |
19. |
Atlanta, GA |
3,340 |
20. |
Richmond, VA |
295 |
May 26, 2013