Interesting article from The Atlantic with scary data:
The Decline of the American Book Lover
And why the downturn might be over. by Jordan Weissmann
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover/283222/
Link to the whole piece and read it.
“The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. As in, they hadn’t cracked a paperback, fired up a Kindle, or even hit play on an audiobook while in the car. The number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978.




Stephen

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