92: Percentage of Filipinos who read, according to the 2007 National Book Development Board (NBDB) Readership Survey.

16: Average age when a typical Filipino youth starts reading non-school books, according to the same survey.

3: Number of times that Neil Gaiman, novelist and creator of ?The Sandman? comic book has visited the Philippines.

$1: Amount donated to the American Red Cross for their relief efforts in Haiti and Chile per book purchase of ?The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,? an Eclipse novella, by Stephenie Meyer, author of the ?Twilight Saga.?

6: Number of years that author Jeff Kinney worked on the New York Times bestseller, ?Diary of a Wimpy Kid.?

81+: Number of consecutive weeks that Suzanne Collins? ?Hunger Games? has been on The New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2008, as of second week of April 2010.

6: Number of Nicholas Sparks novels that have been made into movies. Two of these movies, based on his novels ?Dear John? and ?The Last Song,? were shown this year.

50+: Number of languages in which author Dan Brown?s novels have been published.

80 million+: Estimated number of copies sold of Dan Brown?s novel ?The Da Vinci Code? to date.

480,000+: Number of titles available at the Amazon Kindle Store. The Kindle wireless reading device can hold up to 1,500 books. Amazon ships the device for about $260 (around P12,000).

Compiled by Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Sources: Breetanner.com, stepheniemeyer.com, wimpykid.com, mediaroom.scholastic.com, nicholassparks.com, bloomberg.com, amazon.com, Inquirer Archives