It be much harder to assume anything else. Maybe author chased down millions of people and spied on their reading habits daily and won’t give December 25th presents if they didn’t read, but sent the survey out in elsewhere in Russian and the people of the democratic republic of Congo didnt have google translate.

It was probably for people with internet access in their native language. And the people of Japan and Korea probably read online or don’t count their “comics”.

It’s a survey. Japan and S Korea don’t read much either compared to the world so either manga doesn’t count, or Japan and S Korea; the home of manga and mangwa doesn’t actually read their own media, or the data is trash.

Why is the 25% not reading? Are they less literate or just online instead? I don’t read much, and the stats say Korea and Japan read the least but they’re not stupid nations so there’s a lot of noise.

Mine is about Russian publishers I doubt it. When Reddit sees “Ukraine” it’s getting upvotes.

>Russian publishers have a sizeable internal market - about 150 million people, give or take.

I don't know what the trends are in Russia but thats like saying every American is a potential reader. I bet most are not reading, reading is a luxury.

More interested in how the Russian publishers could survive sanctions, a bad economy, a war, and putin.