Fundamental rights of freedom have gained ground over the preceding decades even if it may not look like that reading mass media, mainly in the Western World, lamenting the state of affairs in countries rarely analyzed throughout.
Christian Grey, the businessman, became a household name, bringing sexual deviance to the pulp-fiction-reading masses.
"I read masses of it," he recalls.
The result, implies this new research, is that Amazon has democratized the book reviewing process, with consumer reviewers less beholden to special interests and more representative of the book-reading masses.
He is a crackerjack interviewer, but his greater skill is reading and re-reading masses of documents.
Women read romances, kids read pulp and white-collar workers read mass-market titles.
And tens of millions of Americans read mass magazines like Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.
He goes to the office Halloween party "as a mass murderer, complete with a sign painted on my back that read MASS MURDERER".
Where the old text refers to "the Holocaust," the new one reads "mass killing by the fascists of captured Soviet citizens," phraseology widely used during Soviet times, according to the Web site of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Women are far more likely to be members of a book club than men; in France the typical member is a 44-year-old woman with two children who likes to read mass-market crime and romance novels, says Jörg Hagen, chief executive of Bertelsmann's local book club, France Loisirs.
