Come on, America
One in four Americans polled by the Associated Press-Ispos said they didn’t read any books at all last year. Not even one?
“I just get sleepy when I read,” said Richard Bustos of Dallas, Texas, a habit with which millions of Americans can doubtless identify. Bustos, a 34-year-old project manager for a telecommunications company, said he had not read any books in the last year and would rather spend time in his backyard pool. – via CNN
So read a book already! And if a whole book makes you sleepy, there’s always DailyLit – a service that will e-mail you small chunks of public domain books each day.
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GREAT! Now I am depressed!
Comment left on August 23, 2007 @ 7:45 am
There’s a plus side to this story. Global book sales totaled over 35 billion dollars last year, which means that somebody somewhere is still enjoying the written word.
So maybe selling in America may be tougher than before. There’s still opportunity to be huge in Europe, and that would make us like many rock stars and David Hasselhoff.
I would totally be down to be known as the Slovenian Sensation, Belgian Boffo or the Stockholm Sockeroo. (Never mind that I’m from none of those places).
Comment left on August 23, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
yes, and not to mention that although none of us are writing children’s fantasy, just last month i was in line with about 1,000 other people — kids and adults alike — for a BOOK. and we were only one small group of many across the world.
Comment left on August 26, 2007 @ 6:34 pm