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March 29, 2006
Reading habits and books acquisition, 2005
The Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE) has just published the Barómetro de hábitos de lectura y compra de libros, 2005, (Barometer for reading habits and books acquisition). In this barometer, which has been periodically published since 1999, it is offered, each three months, the reality about reading habits and acquisition of books in Spain, in order to give a comprehensive summary of the target year. According to this barometer, the real reading habits have developed in a positive way. The figure of readers for 2005 is over the figure for previous years, reaching by 57% of the population. Literature and above all novels, are the most read. The most read book is The Da Vinci Code, as it was in 2004, followed by The shadow of wind. Don Quijote de La Mancha, in its fourth centenary, took the fourth place. A worrying fact is that for third year, the percentage of people who took from a library the last book they read has decreased. It was by 3.5% in 2005. The most common way to gain access to books is by buying them, by 47.3%. Libraries take also the last place as a way of information about books. An special section is dedicated to the use of libraries. By 28.5% of readers have visited a library during the last year and by 80% of them was a public library.
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