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Quoting Robert Plamondon <robert -at- plamondon -dot- com>:
> So I'm told. Yet the fact remains that there's plenty of material out there
> aimed at entertaining an audience consisting primarily of non-stellar
> readers. Probably millions of copies a month are moved through the
> lower-end romance lines alone.
I don't think you can characterize romance novels as being aimed at less
proficient readers. Many intelligent, hyper-literate women either read them or
have gone through periods in their lives when they read them (and not
necessarily when they were young, either).
Moreover, some romance fans read so many of these novels in a month that they
are probably faster readers than you or I. So, if reading speed is any measure,
they would have to be counted as good readers.
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Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604-421.7177
