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On page 14 of the June issue:
"The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is lunching a new literary competition ... " :)
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Internet sales over Christmas, by type of purchase as percentage of total sales:-
DVDd, videos and games - 24% of purchases
Clothing and accesories - 36%
Books - 46%
Somebody can't add up.....
Clothing and accesories - 36%
Books - 46%
"Mathematics for dummies instructions" - 6%
Hmmm.
Does it not mean that 46% of all book purchases were online purchases; and so on?
Surely it can't be a percentage of total internet sales because - regardless of the maths - people buy things other than those on the internet.
I paraphrased above as it was quite wordy.
Now I'm confused!
So it's saying that 24% of DVD purchases occurred via the internet; 36% of clothes and accessories were purchased via the internet; etc?
If so, there's no problem with the maths.
If not, then it's just weird.
It's saying that, out of internet sales in the noted categories, 24% of sales were accounted for by DVDs etc, 36% by clothes etc. 46% by books. It adds up to 106% when it should be 100%. It is quite clear in the article that this is the way it is meant.
http://www.nielsen.com/media/2008/pr_080128b.html
Okay - the figures aren't quite right, but it makes sense of them: 45% of people have bought books online in the last three months; 36% clothes; etc.
Which would make sense.
I realise that I'm coming across as bizarrely obsessed with this! :-)
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Hadn't thought of it that way Liz, but as it was a romance novel, and the girl was in the scene, it had to be his own jaw.
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Page 16 "They were coolly being observed by the rest of the growing crowed."
Page 66: "Carpe deum." (Unless this is a reference to Gods Behaving Badly.)
Page 48: "Ideas can come from setting your story in a small village or a cruise ship, but they don't necessarily come from the place where it is set." (Maybe it's just me, though.)