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According to Shelf Awareness, Barnes & Noble will not sell O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It in its stores but will fulfill special orders and offer it online, the AP (via USA Today) reported. The company cited “a perceived lack of customer interest.” By contrast, Borders will stock If I Did It, which will be published by Beaufort Books in October, but the company “will not promote or market the book in any way,” spokesperson Ann Binkley told the AP.

A recent poll was conducted on the reading habits of adults in America. Some 25% of all adult Americans did not read any books in the past year and on average, adults read four books in the last year, but those who read love reading, an AP/Ipsos poll has found.

The most avid readers are women and seniors; religious works and popular fiction are the top categories. More men than women are nonreaders, and they tend to be older, less educated, lower income, minorities, from rural areas and less religious.