Larry McMurtry, a well-known American writer, says that the book is one of many endangered species:
The end of the culture of the book. I’m pessimistic. Mainly it’s the flow of people into my bookshop in Archer City. They’re almost always people over 40. I don’t see kids, and I don’t see kids reading. I think little kids love to have stories read to them, but when they get to 10 or 11 or 12, they run into this tsunami of technology: iPod, iPhone, Blackberries. They don’t resist it, and it’s normal that they wouldn’t; it’s their culture. I’m not so sure they ever come back to reading. Some will, but most won’t.
Read more on Larry McMurtry see the end of book culture. I disagree. I think it’s the end of “Big Publishing The Old Fashioned Way” book culture.
