(Paul Fraughton | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Patrons check out the new location of Sam Weller Books, once a stalwart of downtown Salt Lake, now in Trolley Square with a new name, Weller Book Works.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Salt Lake City among top 10 'well-read' cities
Published on May 15, 2012 04:38PM
If you're reading this, congratulations: You're well-read.
If you're reading this in Salt Lake City, you're also typical.
Amazon.com released its second-annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America, and Salt Lake City scored in the top 10 -- in 10th place, in fact.
Here's the top 20:
- Alexandria, Va.
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Berkeley, Calif.
- Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Boulder, Colo.
- Miami
- Arlington, Va.
- Gainesville, Fla.
- Washington, D.C.
- Salt Lake City
- Pittsburgh
- Knoxville, Tenn.
- Seattle
- Orlando, Fla.
- Columbia, S.C.
- Bellevue, Wash.
- Cincinnati
- St. Louis
- Atlanta
- Richmond, Va.
Rankings were determined by sales data of book, magazine and newspaper sales - in both print and Kindle format - since June 1, 2011. The numbers were weighed on a per capita basis for cities with more than 1000,000 residents.
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