More VIDA reactions and numbers

       In The Guardian Alison Flood and Michael Bonnet look at the VIDA 2011 Count -- see my previous mention -- noting Gender bias in books journalism remains acute, research shows.
       Usefully, they tally up some more numbers, noting those:

At the Guardian and Observer, where over the last four weeks 37% of reviews were by women, and 25% of the books reviewed were by women

       They also point to one reason why there is such a consistent imbalance:

The Guardian contacted a number of the UK's largest publishing houses and found that 2011 non-fiction releases for Penguin, Atlantic Books, Random House and Simon & Schuster all painted a similar picture, with 74%, 73%, 69% and 64% per cent of all titles male authored respectively.

       (However, they don't bother to wonder or explain why so many periodicals bother so much with non-fiction coverage, rather than what really counts (i.e. covering fiction).)