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50 million readers worldwide |
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200 million books sold per annum worldwide = 6.6 books per second |
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3.2 million regular readers in the UK, 13 million books sold per annum in the UK |
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UK Market leader with a 74% share of the paperback romantic fiction market, which in total is worth more than £54M each year |
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Romantic fiction accounts for 20.5% (vol) of all fiction books purchased at retail in UK |
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95% awareness of Mills & Boon brand in the UK |
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Over 3 million women in the UK regularly read a Harlequin Mills & Boon book. |
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57% of buyers spend 3 hours or more reading during the week |
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1500 authors worldwide; 1,400 new titles per annum; over 100 titles per month |
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If you stacked every book sold in a single day on top of each other, the pile would be 35 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower. |
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If you set out to read all the Harlequin books sold over the past ten years, averaging a little over two hours per book, you would be reading for the next quarter of a million years. |
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The weight of all Harlequin books sold last year would equal the maximum carrying capacity of more than 169 Boeing 747 cargo planes. |
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Over the last forty years, Harlequin characters have kissed each other over 20,000 times, shared about 30,000 hugs and headed for the altar at least 7,000 times. |