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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
The demise of the book is greatly exaggerated. People too often look at the past with rose-colored glasses and exaggerate how much people read in the past, or exaggerate how much people read classics. The YA market would not exist if teenagers weren't reading. You may not see them in school reading for pleasure, but they are reading these YA books somewhere.
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This.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I don't expect that to happen. However romantic a "literacy resistance" might be, the fact remains that the best-paying jobs will need high-literacy, and people will want to make money; so literacy will always be in demand.
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And this.
The fact is our society requires reading to operate. There will always be the less well read groups, but even then will use text messaging, facebook (or what ever replaces it) and so on. Reading is very ingrained into our society. I do not foresee it going away with out some major (WW IV?) disaster preceding it that forced us back into a society were reading was so much a part of it.