21%   great, I find the results interesting
12%   useful, more often than not
12%   I do not care either way
7%   mostly uninteresting, but I can live it
48%   an intrusion, I wish they would go away

Question Posed September 2000
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9%   Yes, I subscribe to 1 of the magazines.
4%   Yes, I subscribe to 2 of the

Question Posed August 2000

12%   Male not a member of any book club
59%   Female not a member of any book club
5%   Male and a member of a book club
24%   Female and a member of a book club

Question Posed July 2000

43%   Terry McMillan
18%   Bebe Moore Campbell
11%   Sheneska Jackson
8%   Connie Briscoe
13%   Valerie Wilson Wesley
7%   Lolita Files

Question Posed July 2000

49%   Definitely Yes
30%   Maybe
7%   Definitely Not
11%   I do not know
3%   I do not care

Question Posed June 2000

36%   Celebrating Our Literary Legacy
22%   Where Words Speak
7%   More Than Just Books
3%   From Written Page to Web Page...
17%   Read to Feed the Mind
15%   Another slogan would be better

"Celebrating Our Literary Legacy" is now AALBC.com's slogan.  The above slogans were selected and voted on by AALBC visitors.  The visitor who picked this slogan has won a copy of John A. Williams – The Man Who Cried I Am (http://authors.aalbc.com/johna.htm) and a copy of the CD Jazz Poetry Café (http://authors.aalbc.com/jazz.htm) and a copy of the latest issue of Mosaic Magazine (http://aalbc.com/download.htm).

Question Posed June 2000

17%   I look forward to reading them
22%   I'm mildly curious about them
12%   I do not care, or are unaware of them
8%   They help promote black authors
34%   They do not promote Black authors enough
7%   Who is Oprah?

Question Posed May 2000

44%    I was born with it - always had it
22%   My parents (or another adult) sparked it
11%   Developed in school before college years
5%   Developed during time in college
11%   Developed as a result of life experience
7%   It was something else

Question Posed April 2000

26%   More books purchased online
74%   More books purchased in physical store

Question Posed March 2000

29%    Tamara Hayle (Valerie Wilson Wesley)
48%   Easy Rawlins (Walter Mosley)
11%   Blanche White (Barbara Neeley)
3%   Aaron Gunner (Gar Anthony Haywood)
3%   Marti MacAllister (Eleanor Taylor Bland)
5%   Carole Ann Gibson (Penny Mickelbury)

Question Posed March 2000

37%   Literary Fiction
10%   Commercial Fiction
4%   Nonfiction (read for work)
29%   Nonfiction (read for pleasure)
14%   Poetry
6%   Bible, Koran (other religious material)

Question Posed Feb 2000

69%   First Time Visitor - I will be back
4%   First Time Visitor - I will not be back
13%   At least once a week
10%   At least once a month
5%   A few times a year

Question Posed Feb 2000

34%   Blues Dancing - Diane McKinney-Whetstone
5%   Miss Muriel and Other Stories - Ann. Petry
20%   Jubilee - Margaret Walker
16%   Dopefiend - Donald Goines
16%   Everybody Smokes In Hell - John Ridley
8%   Dirty Bird Blues - Clarence Major

Thank you. Blues Dancing will be added to our Reading List

Question Posed Feb 2000

28%  Eric Jerome Dickey
23%  Walter Mosley
28%  E. Lynn Harris
14%  Omar Tyree
1%    Van Whitfield
6%   Colin Channer

Question Posed Jan 2000

30%   I had more time to read
37%   Books did not cost so much
8%   I could find more quality material
8%   I could read what I've already purchased
13%   I could find more on subjects I enjoyed
4%   I've no desire to buy more frequently

Question Posed Dec 1999

78%  A Personal Computer
2%   A Rocket eBook by NuvoMedia
5%   A SoftBook by SoftBook Press
2%   A WindowsCE Device
5%   A PalmPilot by 3Com
7%   Everybook Dedicated Reader by Everybook

Question Posed Dec 1999