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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
This is Jordan Rich. It's always interesting

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to take a look at reading trends
as a new year unfolds, so I

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checked in with the Association of American
Publishers or AAP. They represent the leading

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book journal and education publishers in the
US, and they have some interesting stats

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garnered over the last couple of years. Seventy five percent of all Americans have

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read at least one book in any
format over the last year. Two in

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five Americans now listen to audiobooks.
Audiobooks are most popular with younger readers eighteen

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to twenty nine, and when it
comes to reading on your kindle or digital

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pad, those numbers are close to
fifty percent. The audiobook industry is earning

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close to six billion dollars a year, with close to one hundred and twenty

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million adulta Americans enjoying the audiobook format, and as digitalization has taken over AI

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in the form of chat GPT is
leading to low quality computer written books that

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could lead to potential copyright violations.
We'll have to wait and see on that.

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Just a few of the latest stats
and trends all part of the Book

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Club WBZ Boston's news radio