Predictions of life after oprah: A glimpse at the power of book club readers

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 11-22

  Sedo, Denel Rehberg ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 22944463862     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-002-0009-8     Document Type: Article

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26. Book club members of my study tend to be younger than Hartley's groups. Whereas the largest cluster of my f2f groups ranged in ages from 26-35 (39%), tile groups in her study tended to be in the 40 + age range (66%), 20 percent were in their thirties, and only one percent were under 30. See Hartley, Jenny. Reading Groups. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 154.