According to the figures exposed in the Reading Habits and Book Purchasing Research as of 2010 – Barómetro de Hábitos de Lectura y Compra de Libros en 2010 – carried out by the Spanish Federation of Publishers – FGEE, Federación de Gremios de Editores en España:
- 57% of the population older than 14 read in their spare time, whilst 21,5% declared reading for work and/or study reasons.
- The rate of spare time readers increased 2 percentage points regarding the 2009 rate, till reaching 43,7% of the population. Compared to 2001, this rate increased up to 7.7 points.
- The average reader profile in Spain kept being young, urban, graduated woman who likes Spanish fiction for amusement.
- 5,3% of the population read electronically, but only 1,0% did it by e-Reader.
- More than half of the readers’s bulk – 57% – belonged to seven major Spanish Regions (i.e. communities of Madrid, The Basque Country, La Rioja, Cantabria, Catalonia, Aragón and Navarra).
- On a quarterly basis, 100% of the whole population aged between 10 and 13 read books at least once.
- 61,1% of the readers acquired Fiction, be it History, Adventure or Action.
- The most successful books in 2010 were: ”Los pilares de la tierra” -The Pillars of the Earth- by Ken Follet, the most read and “El tiempo entre costuras”, by María Dueñas, the best-sold.
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