WSJ reporting:
Kobo, which makes digital reading devices and operates an e-reading
service that stocks 2.5 million books and has more than 8 million users,
has recently started looking at how readers as a whole engage with
particular books and genres. The company tracks how many hours readers
spend on particular titles and how far they get.
Kobo recently found, for example, that most readers who started
George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novel “A Dance With Dragons” finished the
book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast
read for a 1,040-page novel. Readers tore through “Mockingjay,” the
400-page final book of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian trilogy, finishing in
just over seven hours. Kobo also found, comparing fiction and
nonfiction titles, that readers tend to spend longer chunks of time
reading novels than humor or diet books.
Take a look at this chart on average reading prices and reading times (in hours).
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/06/29/what-your-e-books-are-telling-companies-about-you/
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