No Book Reading for Twenty Five Per Cent of the U.S.
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Book sellers and authors must dread numbers like this. Approximately twenty five per cent of the U.S. population have not read a book in the past year:
“…Analysts attribute the listlessness to competition from the Internet and other media, the unsteady economy and a well-established industry with limited opportunities for expansion.”
link: 1 in 4 in U.S. report not reading a book in past year
Perhaps it also reflects upon our ‘instant-everything’ culture. There is an immediacy to so many things. It is a stress to the attention span now if the information does not come in a sound bite, a text message, a voice mail…
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: books, reading, attention span, internet, media
One Comment
ShadowMyth
August 22nd, 2007
at 4:15pm
I think the numbers are even worse than they make it out to sound, I think it is more like 75 percent that do not read books, especially with the advent of the internet.