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Unless a survey asks specially about whether a person bought a book with no intention of ever reading it AND people actually provide an honest answer to that qu
by jamesrcole 9y ago
Unless a survey asks specially about whether a person bought a book with no intention of ever reading it AND people actually provide an honest answer to that question, then I can't see how a survey could provide the answers.
How do you think sales ratios could provide the figures about people's purchase intentions?
- SyneRyder 9y agoThere do exist services for buying books purely for aesthetic reasons, like Books By The Foot. They've got a special now for "Holly & Ivy", for $49 per foot you can buy books with green or red colored spines to give your house a Christmas ambience: https://www.booksbythefoot.com/shop/pc/Holly-Ivy-3p232.htm https://www.booksbythefoot.com/shop/pc/Holly-Ivy-3p232.htm I assume sales to those services are nowhere near as high as 20%, but counting sales to similar services (and Hollywood set designers, bulk orders to interior decorators, etc) could go some way towards calculating a percentage.
- jamesrcole 9y agoThose figures would be interesting, but none of them are going to give accurate numbers for the numbers the original comment was talking about, because they tell you nothing of the number of people who buy the books (with no intention of reading them) by more conventional means. They don't provide any way to infer those numbers.