The whole Gen Z can’t read mantra is a crock of shit. They just aren’t reading so much where traditional publishing needs them to be.
Gen Beta are being set up to fail, and neither side of the Atlantic (the ocean, that is, not the...
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Category: Reading Crisis
America’s reading crisis is a crisis of the classroom
Americans don’t read. Might it be because a lot of them were never taught properly?
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RIP Reading Redux. Big 5 CEO David Shelley Plays the ‘Smartphones Did It Card’ at the Worst Possible Moment
Hachette CEO David Shelley blames smartphones for the reading crisis in a widely syndicated op-ed. The correlation is real. The causation isn’t – and his own history should have warned him.
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Which Screen? Why The Atlantic’s “The End of Reading” Measures the Wrong Thing
The Atlantic blames shrinking attention spans for reading’s decline. The research it cites measured office multitasking, not books – and today’s bestsellers are longer than ever.
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The Geopolitics of the Bestseller: Why The Atlantic’s Doctor Zhivago Myth Fails the Reading Test
The Atlantic used Doctor Zhivago to argue Americans once read harder books. The real story is a CIA operation, a refused Nobel, and a translation quirk — not declining minds.
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Digital Reading Boost Kids’ Reading Time in Malaysia. Rest of the World, Take Note!
Malaysian students’ reading scores have plummeted, but digital platforms present an unexpected solution for publishing professionals.
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