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A new study reveals that the prohibitions of the book increase the readership of the inclusive content
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and George Mason have published a new study on The impact of books on the consumption of prohibited booksAnd the results could surprise you. The use of book circulation data from a “large library content and services for large public and university libraries in the United States” out of the 25 main most distinguished titles, revealed that:
- To forbid increase The circulation of books prohibited by 12% Compared to a control group. That is to say, the prohibitions of books lead to a Streisand effect Rather than having a scary effect on readership.
- The effect pours towards states without prohibitions and is not lower (increase of 11.2%).
- The increase in readership focuses on books related to breed, gender and LGTBQ + problems.
- Book prohibitions expose new readers to inclusive content; On average, children read prohibited books 19% more than control titles after a ban book.
- The circulation of prohibited books increases in red states which have books of books and in blue states, whatever the status of prohibition of books.
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This guy listened Gatsby in rehearsal for 5 years
In the first days of Covid, Andrew Clark began to listen to part of the audio publishing of book The Grand Gatsby Reported by Jake Gyllenhaal every night before bed. By fixing a sleep timer for 45 minutes, he would finish the book every week and start again. In 2024, he stopped using the timer and simply allowed the book to play in his ears all night. NOW, He listened The Grand Gatsby more than 200 times. Clark knows it’s a strange choice:
Who chooses as a ritual novel at bedtime a soft-love novel which ends with a suicide murder (preceded by a fatal car accident) in which nobody finds love and the only character who finds himself at the happy is a violent racist and a cheat in series?
But he does not intend to stop anytime soon. Gatsby is part of him, and his reflection on the way in which his understanding of the novel moved with age, time and repetition is quite charming.
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