Culture
Yes, Americans Are Really Still Buying Books
The kind wedged between two covers.
Publishers and booksellers work hard to convince naysayers that print isn’t passé. But popular imagination still eulogizes books above their so-called deathbed—or else shakes a clenched fist, cursing cockamamie kids and their fleeting attention spans, evaporating in the length of a Snapchat.
Consider, then, this new report from the Pew Research Center as a doctor’s note testifying to a clean bill of health.