Social competitiveness about which titles we read has become one of the new mass forces of the era and only middle-aged people are relatively free of it.
Driven partly by pressure from incessant literary prize shortlists, more than one in three consumers in London and the south-east admit having bought a book "solely to look intelligent", the YouGov survey says.
The biggest group, more than two in every five people, follows the traditional method of choosing their reading; relying on recommendations from close family and friends.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Guardian on social aspects of book purchase motivation:
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