newspapers and magazines overtake books as UK’s favourite read

Charles Davis sent over
This One that says research reveals that in only
23% do both partners read fiction, making the \’two novel household\’
rarer than the \’two car household\’. Fiction reading among those who read for pleasure is now
just 11 minutes a day, according to research released today by the
Orange Prize for Fiction. The research revealed that on average,
people spend 6 hours a week reading for pleasure which breaks down
to 11 minutes on fiction, 6 minutes a day on non-fiction, 2 minutes on
reference books, 17 minutes a day on newspapers, 5 minutes on
magazines and 7 minutes on online press and the internet. This
contrasts with time spent watching television (3.5 hours a day) and
spent listening to the radio (3 hours a day)

*. This means that nearly
half of the nation (40%)
read no books.