It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.
This reminds me to mention the great article on literacy in New Yorker’s Dec 24th’s issue called The science of reading and its decline.
My thoughts: people say this all the time yet - there are more ways to “read” than ever before. Book sales may not be strong - but people are still buying books! I guess what I’m trying to say is that when the magazine came into vogue in the 50’s people said hardback reading was dead and well over 50 years later … it isn’t.
