This is so astonishing that I’m not sure I believe it. Amazon added up sales of books, magazines and newspapers, hard copy and digital combined, and then did a per capita calculation. Columbia came out 16th in the nation.
Cambridge, Mass. tops Amazon's list of 'well-read' cities
By Doug Gross, CNN, May 27, 2011
| 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| 2. Alexandria, Virginia | |
| 3. Berkeley, California | |
| 4. Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| 5. Boulder, Colorado | |
| 6. Miami | |
| 7. Salt Lake City, Utah | |
| 8. Gainesville, Florida | |
| 9. Seattle, Washington | |
| 10. Arlington, Virginia | |
| 11. Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| 12. Orlando, Florida | |
| 13. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| 14. Washington, DC | |
| 15. Bellevue, Washington | |
| 16. Columbia, South Carolina | |
| 17. St. Louis, Missouri | |
| 18. Cincinnati, Ohio | |
| 19. Portland, Oregon | |
| 20. Atlanta, Georgia | |
Even within South Carolina we might expect more readers in Charleston and Greenville. Columbia is a small city that is both the Capital and a University town; maybe that’s it. Anyway, it’s nice not to be on the bottom for once.
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