READERSHIP STATISTICS FOR INTERNET NEWSGROUPS RELATED TO BOOKS

[Edited from Brian Reid's Usenet Readership Report, as follows.]

From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.lists
Subject: USENET Readership report for Jan 94
Date: 8 Feb 1994 13:59:13 -0800
Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory


        +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
        |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
        |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
        |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
        |     |     |      |      +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
        |     |     |      |      |      +-- Crossposting percentage
        |     |     |      |      |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      +-- Share: % of newsrders
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
RANK    V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V

  39 150000  1834   77%  2221  4441.1    13%  0.04   3.6%  rec.arts.books 
 270  84000  1019   74%   163   296.7    15%  0.00   2.0%  misc.books.technical 
 276  83000  1015   52%   324   532.8    20%  0.01   2.0%  alt.books.reviews 
 299  81000   985   73%  2985  6061.5     3%  0.09   1.9%  rec.arts.sf.written
 468  68000   835   61%  1033  1528.5    12%  0.02   1.6%  alt.fan.douglas-adams 
 569  62000   760   69%    16   106.1    67%  0.00   1.5%  rec.arts.sf.reviews 
 593  61000   746   61%   187   277.0     1%  0.00   1.5%  alt.fan.dave_barry 
 698  56000   683   45%   505  1038.2     2%  0.01   1.3%  alt.books.anne-rice 
 766  53000   651   57%    55    79.5     4%  0.00   1.3%  alt.books.technical 
 815  52000   629   59%  1630  2661.1     0%  0.05   1.2%  alt.fan.pratchett 
 981  46000   565   51%   203   338.3     0%  0.01   1.1%  alt.fan.eddings 
 992  46000   561   48%   331   644.4     3%  0.01   1.1%  alt.fan.tolkien 
1013  45000   552   45%   178   236.6     1%  0.00   1.1%  alt.books.isaac-asimov 
1111  43000   521   58%   251   476.2     1%  0.01   1.0%  alt.fan.pern 
1150  41000   505   58%   685  1551.8     4%  0.04   1.0%  rec.arts.books.tolkien 
1184  41000   495   47%   124   255.5     0%  0.00   1.0%  alt.fan.holmes 
1228  40000   482   45%    33    81.4     6%  0.00   0.9%  biz.books.technical 
1242  39000   475   42%   216   426.8     5%  0.01   0.9%  alt.books.deryni 
1399  34000   420   49%   118   155.1     1%  0.00   0.8%  alt.fan.piers-anthony 
1412  34000   417   45%   101   121.0    11%  0.00   0.8%  alt.fan.asprin 
1535  31000   379   46%    76   151.6     0%  0.00   0.7%  alt.fan.wodehouse 
1595  30000   362   48%    55    75.7     0%  0.00   0.7%  alt.fan.tom-robbins 
1682  28000   340   15%     7    24.0    86%  0.00   0.7%  clari.news.books 
1832  25000   306   37%    15    20.9     0%  0.00   0.6%  alt.fan.hofstadter 
1892  24000   294   38%   100   176.4     2%  0.00   0.6%  alt.fan.dune 
2005  22000   271   35%    88   131.6     1%  0.00   0.5%  alt.fan.noam-chomsky 
2465  13000   160   30%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.fan.rumpole 
2469  13000   159   22%    53    80.7     0%  0.00   0.3%  alt.fan.robert-jordan 
2523  12000   146   38%     7     6.4     0%  0.00   0.3%  alt.fan.nathan.brazil 
2592  10000   127   45%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.fan.tom_peterson 
