Helen's Reads » Seattle http://helensreads.com Find books worth reading. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:26:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seattle Is 2009 Most Literate City http://helensreads.com/2009/12/seattle-is-2009-most-literate-city/ http://helensreads.com/2009/12/seattle-is-2009-most-literate-city/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:29:10 +0000 helen http://helensreads.com/?p=2668 Yahoo!  

Seattle has once again topped the list of America’s most literate cities, but this year Washington, D.C., edged traditional literate city powerhouse Minneapolis as a surprise runner-up. The annual study by Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, “focuses on six indicators: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and Internet resources,” USA Today reported.

America’s most literate cities for 2009:

  1. Seattle
  2. Washington
  3. Minneapolis
  4. Pittsburgh
  5. Atlanta
  6. Portland, Ore.
  7. St. Paul
  8. Boston
  9. Cincinnati
  10. Denver

source: Shelf Awareness

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