Best-Read City in US: Cambridge

Home of Harvard has most Amazon book purchases per capita
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted May 26, 2011 10:35 AM CDT
Amazon.com: Cambridge, Massachusetts Is Most 'Well-Read' City in US
CAMBRIDGE, MA - MAY 10: Students sit outside Harkness Commons on the Harvard Law School campus on May 10, 2010 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. U.S. President Barack Obama announced today the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, former Harvard Law School Dean from 2003-2009,...   (Getty Images)

No surprise here: College towns are prime spots for readers, according to a new study released today by Amazon. The online giant ranked Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard and MIT, as the country's most well-read city. In second place was Alexandria, Va., which hosts George Washington University. Amazon's list of the top 20 most well-read cities of populations 100,000 or higher was based on the retailer's print and digital sales per capita of books, magazines and newspapers. The rest of the top 10:

  1. Berkeley, Calif.
  2. Ann Arbor, Mich.
  3. Boulder, Colo.
  4. Miami
  5. Salt Lake City
  6. Gainesville, Fla.
  7. Seattle
  8. Arlington, Va.
(More Amazon.com stories.)

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