Hyderabad: Hyderabad has been slotted among the top 5 cities in India that are driving the country’s love for reading, for the third consecutive year, according to the Amazon.in’s Annual Reading Trends Report. The ranking of the reading trend report was determined by compiling sales data of all the physical books sold during the course of the year 2015.
This year, Amish Tripathi’s ‘Scion of Ikshvaku’ was the most sold book in the city, while last year’s bestseller, Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Half Girlfriend’ came in third. The Manorama Yearbook 2015 was ranked second in the number of sales in the city.
The sale of the top book (Scion of Ikshvaku) was over 3x the sale of the most sold book of last year, Half Girlfriend, indicating an extremely healthy growth in the reading habits of the city.
Fiction ranked as the top genre of the year in the city. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’, Preeti Shenoy’s ‘Life is What You Make it’ and Robin Sharma’s self-help book ‘Who will cry when you die’ featured for the second year in the top 10 book purchased by the city.
Exam preparation books emerged as the third most popular genre and are amongst the fastest growing categories on the website that supplies the largest number of books in different languages. The Manorama Yearbook topped the Exam preparation category this year. The book moved from up from the 7th position last year to 2nd position this year in the overall book sales in Hyderabad.
The translated version of ‘The Secret’ authored by Rhonda Byrne topped the Telugu books category.
The translated version of ‘The Secret’ authored by Rhonda Byrne topped the Telugu books category.
Some findings from the trends report:
The Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities
This year, Amish Tripathi’s ‘Scion of Ikshvaku’ was the most sold book in the city, while last year’s bestseller, Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Half Girlfriend’ came in third. The Manorama Yearbook 2015 was ranked second in the number of sales in the city.
The sale of the top book (Scion of Ikshvaku) was over 3x the sale of the most sold book of last year, Half Girlfriend, indicating an extremely healthy growth in the reading habits of the city.
Fiction ranked as the top genre of the year in the city. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’, Preeti Shenoy’s ‘Life is What You Make it’ and Robin Sharma’s self-help book ‘Who will cry when you die’ featured for the second year in the top 10 book purchased by the city.
Exam preparation books emerged as the third most popular genre and are amongst the fastest growing categories on the website that supplies the largest number of books in different languages. The Manorama Yearbook topped the Exam preparation category this year. The book moved from up from the 7th position last year to 2nd position this year in the overall book sales in Hyderabad.
The translated version of ‘The Secret’ authored by Rhonda Byrne topped the Telugu books category.
The translated version of ‘The Secret’ authored by Rhonda Byrne topped the Telugu books category.
Some findings from the trends report:
The Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities
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1.
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Delhi – NCR
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9
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Jaipur
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17.
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Ernakulam
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2.
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Bengaluru
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10
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Chandigarh
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18.
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Coimbatore
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3.
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Mumbai
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11
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Nagpur
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19.
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Bhopal
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4.
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Hyderabad
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12
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Surat
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20.
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Visakhapatnam
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5.
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Chennai
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13
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Bhubaneswar
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6.
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Pune
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14.
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Guwahati
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7.
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Kolkata
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15.
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Vadodara
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8.
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Ahmedabad
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16.
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Indore
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