Amazon.com, in its fifth annual list, ranked its hometown Seattle as the most well-read city in the U.S., followed by Portland, Ore., but the big surprise was No. 3 --- gambling mecca Las Vegas, noted Grumpy Editor.
The tally was determined by compiling book, magazine and newspaper sales data in print and Kindle format, in the year ended in April, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 500,000 residents.
The compilation found Seattle not only purchased the most books overall but also bought the most Kindle books, magazines and newspapers.
Other Amazon findings:
Las Vegas readers, when not at the gaming tables or slot machines, purchased the most romance titles.
Three California cities --- San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose --- made the top 20 list.
Amazon's top 20 most well-read cities:
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1. Seattle, Wash. |
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11. Charlotte, N.C. |
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2. Portland, Ore. |
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12. Baltimore, Md. |
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3. Las Vegas, Nev. |
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13. San Diego, Calif. |
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4. Tucson, Ariz. |
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14. Houston, Texas |
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5. Washington, D.C. |
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15. Indianapolis, Ind. |
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6. Austin, Texas |
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16. San Jose, Calif. |
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7. San Francisco, Calif. |
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17. Jacksonville, Fla. |
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8. Albuquerque, N.M. |
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18. San Antonio, Texas |
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9. Denver, Colo. |
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19. Nashville, Tenn. |
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10. Louisville, Ky. |
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20. Chicago, Ill.
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IN CASE YOUR FAVORITE NEWS OUTLETS MISSED THESE…
As word swept through Washington that 4 million federal workers’ sensitive information was hacked (most likely by the Chinese), President Barack Obama was meeting in the White House’s East Room with members of last October’s World Series champions San Francisco Giants and receiving a personalized Giants jersey bearing No. 44…Meanwhile, Los Angeles area residents were gearing up for another fund-raising visit by Obama with resulting messy rush-hour traffic on June 18…The military newspaper Stars and Stripes revealed a serious growing U.S. Navy problem: degraded or out-of-service equipment on Navy ships have doubled in the past five years, with the condition of many overseas-homeported ships deteriorating faster than those based in the U.S…News that Greece was continuing talks with creditors coupled with expectation of an interest rate hike in the fall along with upbeat news of U.S. job growth triggered selling on Wall St. as the Dow Jones Industrial Average again dropped below 18,000, ending the week at 17,849.46…A Rasmussen Reports poll found 76 percent of Americans (with 58 percent of Democrats) support voter ID laws across the country…The Chicago Tribune cut 10 newsroom positions, part of a cost-saving measure…The Women’s Media Center noted 65 percent of U.S. political stories published during a three-month span last year were written by men…ProPublica said the Red Cross raised nearly half a billion dollars following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti --- and built only six permanent homes…More "bad news" with those mysterious tar balls washing onto Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange county beaches in Southern California. They “could now have an effect on mating patterns of the beloved grunion,” revealed the Los Angeles Times --- (on what probably was a slow news day). The fish, five to six inches long, come ashore at night to spawn on sandy beaches…"Shocking" breaking news: Fox News reported “Ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoners set to marry in Uruguay have not taken out licenses”…Rachel Racusen, who left the White House as associate communications director last November to join MSNBC as vice president of communications, will return to the White House as strategic communications adviser. Mentioning that triggered Keith Koffler, who writes White House Dossier, to declare mainstream journalism today “is not just overtly biased. It is actually politicized, hiring freshly picked former administration officials to supposedly serve as ‘analysts’ when it’s never really clear the extent they are still working for their former bosses”…The number of foreign-born persons holding U.S. jobs jumped to 25,098,000, a 279,000 gain in May, tallied the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The BLS does not distinguish between legal immigrants, who are permitted to work in the U.S., and illegal aliens, who are not.)
So where do you think Las Vegas Review-Journal readers would like to visit: Los Angeles, New York, Honolulu, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon?
Nope.
A full-page travel feature in Sunday’s edition was devoted to “BIRD-WATCHING AT NATURE LODGE IN ANDES MOUNTAINS” in southern Ecuador, one of many pieces the newspaper (under new ownership) now picked up from The Washington Post.
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