Indians not avid TV watchers, instead hook to books

Anonymous Patron writes “Some Interesting News Out Of India. India may not be a heavy TV watching country, but a book loving country it sure is! India surpasses every other country as far as time spent on reading is concerned. On an average, an Indian spends 10.7 hours reading in a week. Close behind India is Thailand, where people spend an average of 9.4 hours in a week in reading. At 3.1, 4.1 and 5 hours respectively, individuals in Korea, Japan and Taiwan fall to the bottom of the reading list.”

June 18, 2005 by Uncategorized 3

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  1. michaelkpate says:
    June 18, 2005 at 2:08 am

    Movies
    Another reason they don’t watch television is because they spend all their time at the movies.

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  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    June 18, 2005 at 5:16 am

    Korea, Japan and Taiwan
    Oddly, those three countries have been the source of some of the best cinema worldwide over the last 5-10 years, in roughly that order too.

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  3. cynthia.orr says:
    June 18, 2005 at 6:57 pm

    They Love Books – Publishers Let Them Steal Books
    Here’s an interesting article which points out that piracy overseas is a HUGE business. So why do American publishers ignore that, refuse to sell their books to US libraries in electronic versions for fear of piracy, and yet blithely outsource their production to places like India where, as the article says, the day shift produces books for the US, the night shift pirates them?

    http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/p ublisher/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=100096 3039

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