Are Baby Boomers the Last Readers?
My favorite Twilight Zone episode is one with Burgess Meredith titled “Time Enough at Last,” in which he plays a henpecked husband who just wants to find time to read. Remember it?
Well, it appears that book reading is becoming less popular among the younger generations (X and Y), and independent bookstores, even in highly literate places like Seattle, are having a hard time competing for attention with the big chains, and, of course, with Amazon and other online bookstores. An article in the Seattle Times Book Section comments that “running a bookstore has always been an occupation for dreamers.” Very …read more
2 Comments