Everyone* is reading fewer books than they used to, and even worse, reading skills are declining. Most people in the US do not read books at all, and the UK is not far off either. How can we reverse this trend? Is it reversible? Is the decline in reading of books, fiction, and long-form text in general actually even a bad thing, or will something else replace it?
I made a post on my blog called The Long Decline of Reading, which received a lot of interesting replies - I'd be keen on talking about the marginalisation of book and fiction-reading with more people here! - Adrian