Vancouverites are some of the biggest bookworms in Canada, according to sales data from Amazon that show residents bought the most books in print and electronic form over the past year.
Richmond, on the other hand, made the Top 20 list at 15. Two other B.C. cities - Burnaby and Surrey - are at eleventh and seventeenth spots, respectively.
Amazon.ca released on Tuesday its first list of the top book purchasers in Canada on a per-capita basis, with Vancouver in No. 1 spot, followed by Calgary, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Regina to round out the Top 5. Toronto was No. 7 and Montreal wasn't included among the Top 20, but that could indicate that not as many consumers shop at the mega online bookseller or they prefer buying reading material elsewhere.
Vancouver consumers are shopping mostly for business and investing books, according to Amazon. The top title purchased overall by Vancouverites was StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath.
They are also are buying the most travel books, along with readers in Calgary and Toronto.
Folks in Saskatoon bought the most titles by Canadian authors and the most books on Kindle.
While Vancouverites were snapping up copies of 103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia by Jack Bryceland, the most popular order for their Toronto counterparts was The New York Times 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada by Barbara Ireland.
