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When Did You Last Buy A New Book?

Posted at 7:47AM Tuesday 09 Mar 2010

When did you last buy a new book?

The percentage of people who read this and who could answer 'within the last month' is likely to be between 1 percent and 2 percent. Not very many but the percentage of the overall population who have bought a new book in the last month will be much smaller, and nor will those percentages have changed much over the last fifty years.

The Spectator

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