Americans Read Fewer Books

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Surprise! Americans Don't Read Much

Surprise! Americans Don't Read Much 07/10/2004 12:38 PM
Scott McLemee .. more

chronicle.com/free/2004/07/2004070901n.htm
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3% of Americans read bl0gs daily

3% of Americans read bl0gs daily 04/04/2005 12:34 AM
ZDNet Apr 4 2005 4:38AM GMT

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News

80% of Online Americans Read Internet
News 06/02/2004 06:23 PM
“Four out of five adults (80%) who are online report that they have used the Internet to read some kind of news in the last seven days. The types of online news used by the largest numbers of people are the weather (60% of all those online), national news (56%), international news (44%) and local news (36%). Currently 69% of all U.S. adults are online from home, work, school, library or other location.”

Read any good terrorist books lately?

Read any good terrorist books lately? 09/21/2004 01:05 PM
Among many other unfortunate provisions in the Patriot Act, passed in haste and hysteria in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there's one that's especially loathsome to American values: It gives the government an unprecedented and scary carte blanche to paw through library and bookstore records to see what you've been reading. If you believe that such records might actually help the government nail the next wave of al-Qaida terrorists, then you don't have to do anything. But if you believe, as I do, that this particular power is useless for that goal -- but might prove handy for John Ashcroft and successors should they decide that, for example, citizens who read too many books about subject X might warrant close surveillance -- then you should go here and sign the petition by the Campaign for Reader Privacy, a coalition of booksellers, librarians and writers, to push Congress to change this un-American law.

This particular part of the Patriot Act is one of those stealth provisions that simply invites government abuse. Consider: "The FBI may request the records secretly; it is not required to prove that there is 'probable cause' to believe the person whose records are being sought has committed a crime; and the bookseller or librarian who receives an order is prohibited from revealing it to anyone except those whose help is needed to produce the records."

This isn't the sort of power we should trust in any government's hands; given the current administration's record, it's even scarier.

"his resolution to read 52 books in 52
weeks"

"his resolution to read 52 books in 52
weeks" 06/19/2004 02:50 AM

WSJ.com - Two-Fifths of Americans
OnlineHave Read Political Blogs

WSJ.com - Two-Fifths of Americans
OnlineHave Read Political Blogs 04/14/2005 01:40 PM
"Two fifths of Americans online have read political blogs." .. Blog statistics in the WSJ

online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111332546086804781-UCpzJB95DI SwIC2tN9Z37YLnGj8_20050513,00.html?mod=blogs
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""Two fifths of Americans online have
read political bl0gs.""

""Two fifths of Americans online have
read political bl0gs."" 04/15/2005 12:12 PM

Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year

Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year 12/17/2003 06:06 AM
Crooked Timber's Books I Did Not Read This Year .. the top ten books he hasn't read this year

crookedtimber.org/archives/001011.html
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And, the Number One Reason to Read Books
Is... (Reuters)

And, the Number One Reason to Read Books
Is... (Reuters) 06/07/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - In a bid to lure men in Britain away from TV soccer games and into book shops, publisher Penguin Books will send out a sexy model to offer 1,000-pound ($1,837) prizes to males spotted reading a selected title.

"Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature"

"Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature" 07/09/2004 10:11 PM

Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature

Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature 07/09/2004 06:31 AM
press release

nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html
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Read Any Good Books on Your Mobile Phone
Lately? (Reuters)

Read Any Good Books on Your Mobile Phone
Lately? (Reuters) 08/08/2004 10:55 PM
Reuters - The copyright for China's first novel to be delivered by mobile phone text messaging, featuring an extra-marital love affair, has been sold by a Beijing-based wireless business operator, Xinhua news agency reported.

Less than half of Americans over 18 read
novels, short stories, plays, or poetry

Less than half of Americans over 18 read
novels, short stories, plays, or poetry 07/09/2004 08:02 AM
Here's a NYTimes.com article dated July 8 .. - from the NYT (reg/req) .. Book Reading Down

nytimes.com/2004/07/08/books/08READ.html
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Web surf, watch video, read e-books, all
on your Playstation Portable

Web surf, watch video, read e-books, all
on your Playstation Portable 04/13/2005 08:21 AM
Napanews.com - Tue Apr 12, 08:29 pm GMT

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print 05/07/2004 07:11 PM
Read Print, a collection of public domain books, poems, and short stories .. ReadPrint

readprint.com
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"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print"

"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print" 05/10/2004 03:11 AM

Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's
"100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have
to Read"

Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's
"100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have
to Read" 08/18/2004 08:54 PM
Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's "100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read" .. 100 livros de FC que você deveria ler

listsofbests.com/list/29
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22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq

22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq 11/13/2003 08:53 AM
Bombing comes despite attacks on insurgents .. lourd tribut .. CNN

cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/12/sprj.irq.main/index.html
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The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87 01/05/2005 04:28 PM
this one by Sarah Boxer

nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html
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Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities

Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly Presents the 89th Edition of the Carnival of the Vanities

tig.mu.nu/archives/030809.html
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The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages 06/20/2004 03:35 AM
NYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here .. review

nytimes.com/2004/06/20/books/20CLIN.html?ei=5006&en=b1de08dbc 243a997&ex=1088308800&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position=
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"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS"

"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS" 03/13/2003 03:47 PM

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS 03/13/2003 12:46 PM
great piece (full of the truth) .. The French Connection .. New York Times .. him seriously .. Bill Safire

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Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.

Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books. 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

So the big< /a> news is about Google and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However, here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the library blogosphere.

• Librari es and the Internet
  
  "More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship between libraries and society. For example, there are two major libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My library card works in both places. I used to favor the college library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant, among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's Weblog
  (Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in the library, too!)


• "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years) at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]


• "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]

It's times like this when I wish Karen Coyle had< /a> a blog.

480,000 Fewer Screams

480,000 Fewer Screams 08/10/2004 02:37 PM
Six Flags' attendance fell by 480,000 in its latest quarter.

Fewer checks, same balances

Fewer checks, same balances 12/27/2004 08:51 AM
Chicago Tribune Dec 27 2004 12:04PM GMT

The NY Times wants fewer links

The NY Times wants fewer links 06/17/2005 04:32 PM

A couple months ago, I chatted with someone who said the New York Times was considering going to a subscription model for nytimes.com, similar to the Wall Street Journal. I said that would be a foolish and short-sighted decision on the Times' part; to place their content behind a subscription wall would be to remove themselves from online conversations now and in the future.

Adam L. Penenberg, in an article for wired.com on February 24, 2005 about the Wall Street Journal's for-pay approach, Whither The Wall Street Journal? expressed a similar point of view:

Since most people refuse to pay for WSJ stories, most bloggers are reluctant to link to them. It also has an impact on anyone who uses the web for research -- and there are a lot of us. As importantly, the next generation of readers is growing up by accessing news over the internet, and one place they are not surfing to is WSJ.com. With their habits being formed now, there is little chance the Journal will become part of their lives, either now or in the future. (emphasis mine)

The Times should remove all barriers to content, from their registration requirement to their for-pay archive access

And yet, yesterday the Times issued a press release, The New York Times Announces TimesSelect - New Online Offering to Launch in September announcing their decision to move more content to an expensive for-pay only section of their site. This is a move in the wrong direction: The Times should remove all barriers to content, from their registration requirement to their for-pay archive access. Such action would enable and increase linking to their broad range of content.

As Jill Walker writes in her paper, Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web, "Links have become the currency of the Web. With this economic value they also have power, affecting accessibility and knowledge on the Web."

Enabling more links to the New York Times would:

• increase the visibility of the Times brand
• help content reach a larger segment of readers
• increase traffic to the site

Clearly, increased traffic would drive increased revenue in the form of online advertising. And in the long term, I believe it would generate more income than charging US$49.95 for an annual subscription. Perhaps US$49.95 is, as Martin Nisenholtz (senior vice president of digital operations for the Times) says, a "terrific price point" for what they're offering -- if you happen to live in the US or western Europe. But it truly is a world wide web, with English as its de facto language.

As media brands increasingly become more global, it's hard to fathom why the Times wouldn't do everything in its power to ensure it's the world wide web's news leader. By charging for its online content, the Times reduces its number of linkable sources, and thus its reach in the online world. It's their first step towards ensuring they will play a smaller role in it going forward.

Fewer Crackers in the Barrel

Fewer Crackers in the Barrel 03/29/2005 03:02 PM
CBRL Group revises guidance, just a little.

GM, Ford See Fewer Bumps

GM, Ford See Fewer Bumps 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
Optimism abounds for the Big Three in '04.

Fewer tourists going to Scotland

Fewer tourists going to Scotland 08/08/2004 03:34 AM
Visitor numbers to Scotland show a surprise fall for the first three months of 2004.

235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015

235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 12/19/2003 11:30 AM

Paying For Fewer Features

Paying For Fewer Features 11/03/2003 05:32 AM
There are some new features, but the important improvements are subtle and all over the place. The end result is that the system just feels better. (Steven Garrity via MyAppleMenu)

Software Makers: Soon They'll Be Fewer

Software Makers: Soon They'll Be Fewer 07/09/2004 03:12 AM
Business Week Jul 9 2004 6:52AM GMT

What Cheney said. But with fewer words.

What Cheney said. But with fewer words. 07/12/2004 10:41 PM
"By jabbing a threatening phallus at your enemy like a wild animal, you aren't just belittling him, but also making him your sexual inferior." Apparently, George W. Bush let some boys in East Lampeter, PA know that they were sexually inferior. But Kerry too has jabbed a threatening phallus recently. [Bush link via Kottke; first link previously discussed on MeFi]

Fewer children banned from school

Fewer children banned from school 05/26/2004 10:44 PM
The number of children excluded from English schools falls, but teachers say behaviour is worsening.

IT A-levels attract fewer pupils

IT A-levels attract fewer pupils 08/20/2004 08:22 AM
vnunet.com Aug 20 2004 12:25PM GMT

Callcentres: Fewer players, but more
recruitment?

Callcentres: Fewer players, but more
recruitment? 12/31/2004 04:44 AM
The Star Online Dec 31 2004 8:31AM GMT

Fewer UK students study in Europe

Fewer UK students study in Europe 08/06/2004 04:03 AM
More British students are studying abroad, but they are shunning Europe for English-speaking countries, researchers say.

Fewer Computer Science Majors

Fewer Computer Science Majors 08/10/2004 10:20 AM

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