Do Italians read enough?

Jan 24, 2019 572

International notorious Italian author Umberto Eco once said: “we live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.” Several scientific data establish that reading helps learning skills, mind growth, and developing imagination by fostering our creative side of the brain. In Italy we are surrounded by literal pieces of history and it seems that what we read in history books can be also observed around us. But do Italians read enough?

According to a research conducted by Doxa — a market research industry — Italians are a population of readers. The important finding is that Italians do not only read a lot, but largely purchase used books. Results also found that books are the third main product purchased after furniture and automobiles. Finally, it seems that, during the period of research, every ten minutes a book was bought on subito.it, a well known website to purchase used items in Italy. However, this was only a 1000-person study.

 

Read more

SOURCE: https://italicsmag.com/

You may be interested