Reading books is on the decline? No way!
This just in: Reading is on the decline. Maybe this isn’t so surprising, given the shortening of our attention spans, but people in media and trade publishing are certainly looking to… Read more »
Want to know why there are so few Republicans in the humanities?
A recent, and widely discussed, Pew poll relays a worrisome fact: nearly sixty percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believe colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country. Readers… Read more »
Pew report finds millennials are the absolute best generation (at going to libraries)
Back in those breezy, know-nothing days of 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, Ebola was terrifying the masses, and we were reporting on a Pew Research Center study that suggested millennials used libraries as much… Read more »
Eat, drink, and read, for tomorrow we die
“Who wants to live forever?” —Freddie Mercury “What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute”s mirth… Read more »
This week in American reading habits
Last week, we did a brief summary of data released by the NEA on the number of Americans reading literature (defined as poetry, plays, short stories, or dramas). The short… Read more »
Pew collects data on American libraries
In late January, the Pew Research Center aggregated a list of “10 facts about Americans and public libraries,” a collection of data from surveys administered over the past year. The… Read more »
Pew study finds ebook readers buy more books, but print book reading still “dominates”
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has released a lengthy study of changing American reading habits with some surprising findings. The 68-page report, “The Rise of e-Reading,”… Read more »