DOTC: We’re Not Reading Any More

“Readership of newspapers is down from a high in 1964 of 81% of the adult population as daily readers of the newspaper to now 48%. This is according to the Newspaper Association of America and the Audit Circulation Bureau which gathers such data. In elections, we tend to focus our efforts on our newspapers to get our message out about elections, voter registration information and deadlines, about polling place locations, and voter information. But we haven’t adjusted to the concept that the majority of Americans are no longer reading newspapers. It dawned on me that if newspaper readership was down so extensively maybe it also affected all other forms of reading. Hang on to your voting equipment for these incredible stats that I found in my search:

•1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives
•42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college
•80 percent of U.S. Families did not buy or read a book last year
•70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years

Dan of the County

Question: What is the last book you read? And when?