New Report: American Teens Spend Less Time Reading

It's perfectly understandable that one of the least popular comments researchers can make around book publishers these days is that young people are reading less. Nevertheless, when the point is put forward with the weight of scientific studies behind it, it's hard to deny that the trend is deeply underway - toward short-form bursts of reading and writing on one social medium or another, and away from the long-form immersive-reading experience of a book.