Amazon.com Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in America

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kicking off the summer reading season, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America. The ranking was determined by compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents. The Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities are:

“As the summer reading season gets into full swing, we're excited to reveal our second annual Most Well-Read Cities list”

1.	Alexandria, Va.	11.	Pittsburgh

2.	Cambridge, Mass.	12.	Knoxville, Tenn.

3.	Berkeley, Calif.	13.	Seattle

4.	Ann Arbor, Mich.	14.	Orlando, Fla.

5.	Boulder, Colo.	15.	Columbia, S.C.

6.	Miami	16.	Bellevue, Wash.

7.	Arlington, Va.	17.	Cincinnati

8.	Gainesville, Fla.	18.	St. Louis

9.	Washington, D.C.	19.	Atlanta

10.	Salt Lake City	20.	Richmond, Va.

In taking a closer look at the data, Amazon also found that:

Berkeley, Calif., is a city full of jet-setters – it topped the list by ordering the most Travel books.
Boulder, Colo., keeps the closest eye on its waistline by topping the list of cities that order the most books in the Health, Fitness & Dieting category.
Virginia is for lovers – Alexandria, Va., that is, which tops the charts in the Romance book category.
Cambridge, Mass., grows the most budding entrepreneurs. These locals topped the list for ordering the most books in the Business & Investing category.

“As the summer reading season gets into full swing, we're excited to reveal our second annual Most Well-Read Cities list,” said Chris Schluep, Senior Editor of Books, Amazon.com. “It’s great to see that we are truly a nation of readers, with representation on this list from every region of the country.”

In addition to their annual Most Well-Read Cities list, Amazon has issued their official summer reading suggestions. Customized lists for adults and children can be found at:

Adults – www.amazon.com\summer-reading
Kids – www.amazon.com\summer-reading-kids

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.

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