ACT  Azerbaijan is presenting the result of survey conducted in Baku on the 11-14th of September.

47% of repondentes haven’t read fiction during a past year, 15% read once a month and 13% read once a year. 63 %  of respondentes haven’t read non-fiction books during a year. The percentage of daily readers is 14%. 17 % of respondentes read religious books every day, 57% haven’t read anything about religion during the past year. 31% of respondentes mostly prefer to read detective genre. 24% of people, who participated in the survey, read a book about love, 22% read about history. Young (between 18-34 ages) and old (more than 55 years old) generation mostly like to read detective genre (accordingly 35% and 30%).  Historical novels are more attractive for middle aged (between 35-54 ages) people.

Within a year 55% of readers have read Azerbaijani literature, 24% read foreign literature translated into Azeri language, 18% of respondentes read literature translated into Russian language. People, who like to read foreign literature, prefer to read Russian (63%), English (23%), Turkish (7%) and Arabian (5%) authors’ books.31% of foreign novel readers are satisfied with the translation into Azeri, but 16% on the contrary, are not satisfied. 36% of people who participated in the survey read books in electron form. 51% of this factor consists of 18-34 aged readers. 83% of people in the survey prefer to read from books adhering to the tradition.

This survey has been conducted among 400 respondents via phone calling in Baku on 11-14 September.