That was a pretty good article from USA Today. (I'd read the NPR ones.) Those statistics were also featured in a recent NPR mention of LibraryThing and other book-ish web sites. Anyway, I don't get too excited over 76 million people not reading a book in the past year. It's my bet they're only counting books read for personal pleasure, not those read to children, not those read for work or school, nor taking into account comic book enthusiasts, nor avid magazine readers. America isn't the most readerly nation (Japan is), but I think we do all right. I believe I read we're on par with the UK readership. I don't recall where we stand (statisically) against other first-world nations.
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Date: 2008-03-26 09:33 pm (UTC)