This is pretty cool. (And an excuse to embarrass Jessica by promoting her soon-to-be-released book.)

While only 15 percent of the books on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list over the past 52 weeks were authored by women, almost 70 percent of non-fiction books are purchased by women. This, along with International Women’s Day, sparked a women authors networking group to launch a national survey on women and books.

Essentially the study will aim to look into the reading and buying (books) trends of women, as well as research the ways in which aspiring women authors can, well, get successfully published.

While I’m always wary of random types of research methods such as this, I’m interested to see the results nonetheless. Go here to take the survey.

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March 13, 2007 4:20 PM

[0+|0-]  oenophile said:

What about fiction books? Seems as if the "New In Fiction" tables are covered with women's writing.

Of course, there's a different issue with non-fiction: those who write non-fiction have a much larger influence in policy and social issues.

Yay for Jessica! When does the book debut?

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March 13, 2007 4:53 PM

[0+|0-]  Phi said:

What I would absolutely love to see are more books written by women about finances. A browse through the financial section in my local bookstore does not have a large variety of that. And everytime I am confronted with that it just brings up the whole stereotype of women not being able to handle money in my head. I tihnk seeing more of that would be more empowering.

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