Bookselling This Week has shared some results from its weekly One Second Surveys, collected over the past few months. Some highlights include:
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37% of BTW respondents have either a bookstore dog or a bookstore cat, while 63% said they have no bookstore pet.
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Out of jazz, rock and classical music, classical is most popular with booksellers: 42% of respondents said they played it in their stores more often than the other two options.
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For 8% of BTW readers, Groundhog Day is apparently the busiest holiday of the year. Most (61%) said Mother's Day.
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36% admitted to occasionally sneaking off to read while on the job, with 8% saying they did it frequently. 56% said they never read while on the clock.
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Pride and Prejudice (58%) is the most popular literary love story, with Love in the Time of Cholera (28%) and The Fault in Our Stars (14%) rounding out the top three.
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When asked how often booksellers dust their stores, 28% answered: "What's dusting?" 50% of respondents said they give their stores a weekly dusting.
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A disturbing 1% of respondents said they "love" movie tie-in covers.
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The crowd has spoken: the ABA's Joy Dallanegra-Sanger will be dyeing her hair pink for Winter Institute 14 in Albuquerque, N.Mex., next January.
A new One Second Survey is asked each week in BTW.