{"id":308,"date":"2006-12-17T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/survey-why-do-people-buy-books\/"},"modified":"2006-12-17T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T23:39:00","slug":"survey-why-do-people-buy-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/survey-why-do-people-buy-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Why do people buy books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Louis Edelman surveyed people about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlouisedelman.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/why-bought-book\/\">why they bought the books they bought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Top three reasons: They read other books by the author, a friend recommended it, and they judged the book by its cover. Those are generally my reasons as well, and the reasons I try to write up posts on books that I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Louis Edelman surveyed people about why they bought the books they bought. Top three reasons: They read other books by the author, a friend recommended it, and they judged the book by its cover. Those are generally my reasons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/survey-why-do-people-buy-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}