🤓 Are books over? How many did you read last year, if any?
I'd love to hear from you in three quick polls . . .
Hi Friends,
People have been lamenting the end of print for decades now . . . the end of newspapers, the end of magazines, even the end of books. But the alarms seem to be sounding loudly now, with even The New Yorker wondering if the media is ready for an extinction-level event.
Save for a surge during the pandemic, it seems authors and publishers are once again fretting over the figures.
just did a fascinating deep dive on the state of the publishing industry:
Pivoters (you!) are by definition high net growth as I say in the book, so this may skew our data in a good way . . . but I’d love to hear from you:
After you vote, see how you fare with the broader public:
Pew Research: Preferred Formats
And if you need a good laugh about the pay-for-play genre that is airport books ($7,000 per month gets you placement in Hudson booksellers across 50 airports), you’ll appreciate the podcast If Books Could Kill:
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