"book consumption" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of reading books. Example: "The increase in book consumption among young adults is a positive trend for the publishing industry."
The scenes involving the store, with its overwhelming towers of books, seem both to celebrate and lament a period of more frequent and consistent book consumption.
Maybe, I thought, if I ordered this wireless Kindle 2 I would be pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption, like Pippin staring at the stone of Orthanc.
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
That is the sobering profile of a new survey to be released today by the National Endowment for the Arts, which describes a precipitous downward trend in book consumption by Americans and a particular decline in the reading of fiction, poetry and drama.
None of this is shockingly newsworthy on its own, but it shows that Amazon intuitively get the road blocks to book consumption and creation and are working on solving them bit-by-bit.
New reading systems encourage speed reading for maximum book consumption, a pre-emptive download system ensures you have plenty of video content to enjoy on trips, and something called Amazon Underground lets you download paid apps for free including in-app purchases.
Several papers in library studies and education have examined e-book consumption for academic reading.
The e-book market is big in the U.S. and U.K., but e-book consumption is just starting out in emerging markets.
Joseph L. Scarpaci, a professor emeritus at Virginia Tech who is one of the authors of a book on consumption in Cuba, said private-sector workers were a "new shade" of middle class, the petite bourgeoisie in Marxist terms, that emigrated after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution or evaporated when he nationalized businesses in the 1960s.
A biography of Mr. Zinkhan, 57, on the university Web site said he was the co-author of two books, on consumption and electronic commerce, and had served as editor of The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and of The Journal of Advertising.
Combining three long-out-of-print books about alcohol consumption, this volume offers recipes for cocktails and cures for hangovers both physical and metaphysical.
