1 in 4 didn’t read a book last year. So what?
Unlike others, I don’t always subscribe to alarmist statistics like this AP poll that found 1 in 4 adults didn’t read a book last year. So? Many of them are interacting with other kinds of media. My brother hardly ever reads books, and yet he reads over a dozen newspaper and magazine articles a day. He has a definite interest in reading, just not in book form.
via ed
Heh, the only book I’ve read in the past year was the final installment of Harry Potter. Considering my feed list, however, I probably read a dozen novels worth of information a year in blogs.
It may, however, be an alarm for book publishers.