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It's sort of interesting. I don't know, Males' job is researching juvenile crimes issues so I don't know how relevant his opinion is on this issue. His main claim to fame is writing Scapegoat Generation, a book that spends a lot of effort to present all the methods that youth are demonized in order to convince us not to demonize them.
Anyway, regardless of his credentials, I don't think he makes any kind of case that people approach reading a paper book differently than they approach reading on a screen.
Males is talking about reading linked news content on the internet compared to paper books. Well, duh. Sure, it's different. Reading on a computer with dynamic content, the reader can jump from and to anywhere as interesting topics strike interest. It's a spider-webbed method instead of front-to-back.
But he's discussing more the type of reading material than the method of delivery. Whether people are reading on screens or paper, they will read novels front to back and magazine/news by jumping to articles they're interested in.
I read The Economist both on a Kindle and in paper and either way, I skip to things that interest me. I read a novel the same way on my Kindle that I do in hardback.
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