For years, critics have bemoaned the decline of reading among both children and adults, but new data actually presents hard numbers on how this behavior has actually declined. According to analysis conducted by Jean M. Twenge, PhD, of the recent Monitoring the Future report, kids these days have all but stopped reading. "Wait, we've heard this before," you might think, and … [Read more...] about Kids These Days… Have They Stopped Reading?
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Do Books Need a Rating System?
Here’s a sensitive topic bound to elicit twenty different opinions from twenty different people: do books need a rating system? Everything from movies to music to even video games have a rudimentary rating level, flawed though it may be, that lets consumers have some small idea of the type of content they can expect from the purchase. Video games and movies get ratings for … [Read more...] about Do Books Need a Rating System?