Writing Off Reading

Maybe it isn’t so much that the internet/technology will replace books, as it is that people aren’t reading anymore.

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800976_pf.html

Writing Off Reading

By Michael Skube
Sunday, August 20, 2006; B03

We were talking informally in class not long ago, 17 college sophomores and I, and on a whim I asked who some of their favorite writers are. The question hung in uneasy silence. At length, a voice in the rear hesitantly volunteered the name of . . . Dan Brown.

No other names were offered.

The author of "The DaVinci Code" was not just the best writer they could think of; he was the only writer they could think of.