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We are talking about a trend, no one - certainly not I - is saying that no one at all reads today, but what Jobs (and many others) are saying is that reading is becoming less and less important. Disagree if you want, but there are many indications that this is true.
I am a reader. I wouldn't be visiting this site, if I weren't. I am not a forecaster. Steve Jobs has shown that he is and that his forecasts are often on target. We must take his views seriously and that view is that reading is less and less important in the modern world. In one sense, this is understandable as we have so many other ways to communicate these days. But in another sense, it is quite frightening: in NYC, where I live, we know that the young read less and that when they do read they often read with poor comprehension. Educators are hard put to know what to do. King (the most successful writer in history, BTW) and Rowling by themselves will not change this trend. And we should not be blinded by the fact that all of us here do indeed read a lot.
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