Book Sales Growth Expected to be Slow
Friday, June 1st, 2007
Over at Yahoo! News I read that sales of books are expected to grow only about 3% per year for the next few years. Bad news! Of course, I’m biased, but I think that reading books is the best, most productive pasttime – well, next to sailing, books are the best, most productive pastime there is.
Why is the decline in reading so bad? Reading build our brains up. Its the mental gym. Read alot of good books, newspapers, and magazines, and your mind will be as buff as any steriod enhanced body builder’s torso.
In my many years of teaching, I found students more and more limited by their ability to think on their feet, read critically, comprehend the world at large, or to even have a strong vocabulary. Maybe the gene pool at the college where i worked was draining dry, but I think that this is more of a trend nationwide. Bad News! Today, with the internet, more and more well educated workers are available to fill my former students’ jobs. The world is flattening, in some regards, as Thomas Friedman argued in his excellent book.
