Hi, On 19-04-01 14:54, Philippe Blouin wrote:
There's a gender bias there. We need to get more BOYS to read.
It also found an unlikely audience in a large group of adult internet users in late 2010 and early 2011, forming a subculture. These fans, mostly male, were drawn to the show's characters, stories, animation style and influence of the show's propagation as an Internet meme. The fandom adopted the name brony (plural bronies), a
Actually we might not have a gender bias and we could even be getting male young adults back to the libraries! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_fandom portmanteau of "bro" and "pony". I tried to find actual numbers, it seems that the first answer is the less likely to suffer from sample bias: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120814200234AA1qJJ6 There might even be bronies among us. Cheers, -- Victor Grousset, dev support/maintenance BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Libre/Open Source software and services for libraries