SO SAD.
- In a 2012 survey, almost a fifth of children said they would be embarrassed if a friend saw them with a book .
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and 54% of those questioned said they preferred watching TV to reading.
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Heres the study from the National Literary Trust.
- Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best-selling book of all time in Britain...
topping all the print sales of the Harry Potter series.
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- Snooki is a New York Times best-selling author.
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- So is Jessica Alba.
- This Justin Bieber book? Also a New York Times best seller.
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- Declining book and e-book sales are down 9.3% in the U.S. And the trend is pretty much the same across the globe.
- The last Borders bookstore closed in September 2011. Barnes and Noble, which is battling a steady sales decline, has been closing about 15 stores a year.
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- Ebook sales have officially topped printed book sales as of 2011. which isnt a death knell for reading per se, but it certainly signals the end of a rich historical era. Of paper.
- Forks, Washington, now has Twilight-themed stores designed to cash in on tourists.
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- And the four-book Twilight series has sold over 116 million copies, almost half as many as Stephen King's entire canon.
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- It's gotten so bad, books are now being MASSACRED for crafts.
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- And the worst: One in four Americans said they read ZERO books in the past year. (According to this 2007 Associated Press poll.)
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