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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
We have the potential for the public to decide that neither is acceptable, and have book-reading fall into an almost-exclusively backlist market.
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Already has. Just go visit a school; the number of kids you see with books for entertainment is at an all- time low.
Although with things going the way they are, I wouldn't be surprised if literacy was to become a massive stigma in a few years, with a large vocal class of "won't read" people actively destroying what writings they can. Its already happened once or twice in human history.