I submit that one in five people often reading award-related books is not an insignificant number.
If that 20% is of 5% of the reading population, then yes it is. (5% is a number I made up, I have no data on core readers vs. readers. Though I pretty sure it's a single digit number.)
I have been assuming we've been talking about people who actually read all along.
People who read, yes. People who read a lot, no. (see my comment where I say Hence my comment about what you mean by "people" - people would generally defined as people at large, mass culture, not a tiny slice of people.
I believe core readers to be a tiny slice of the reading population.)
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If that 20% is of 5% of the reading population, then yes it is. (5% is a number I made up, I have no data on core readers vs. readers. Though I pretty sure it's a single digit number.)
I have been assuming we've been talking about people who actually read all along.
People who read, yes. People who read a lot, no. (see my comment where I say Hence my comment about what you mean by "people" - people would generally defined as people at large, mass culture, not a tiny slice of people.
I believe core readers to be a tiny slice of the reading population.)