Toot toot!

Here's  an annoying press release from Amazon which tries to argue that the nation's "best read" cities are those who buy the most reading material from Amazon. Umm...think there might be a fallacy at work here? Is shopping for reading matter at Amazon really an indication of how well read a city's population is? Portland is 19th on the list, I see. But I know that I, as well as many other Portland residents, like to shop at Powell's City of Books and prefer to buy a book from there rather than from Amazon if I can help it. Not to mention the fact that many readers simply borrow their materials from libraries or read from free online sources. All Amazon has done here is shed light on the shopping habits of some residents of some American cities. Oh and toot their own horn a little in the process. How silly.