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2026-02-20 18:18 UTC
@ElyseMGrasso
I am so sorry. I certainly didn't intend to offend. I am very much in your boat - completely stopped reading paper-books more than 15 years ago. I felt that the article was highlighting the growth of readership in other parts of the world as there is more access to education and growing incomes. Having said that, another article suggested that the plethora of lit festivals in places such as India don't necessarily indicate new readers. Rather they are new places to hang out at.
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@ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop 2026-02-20 18:26
@TinJar Changes in popularity of paper books does not necessarily say anything about the amount of reading that is happening. That's a false inference. People in the US are reading a lot fewer mass market paperbacks than they did when I was young, but that has very little to do with reader preferences and a lot to do with industrial level decision making and the collapse of the distribution channel. Ebooks are filling that price niche because that is what publishers make available.