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But she did leave me with another question: With the primary book-reading audience (baby boomers) aging, what will happen when that audience is gone?
A year and a half ago, the National Endowment for the Arts released the results of a survey called “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.” The survey showed that fewer than half of American adults now read literature, and an overall decline of 10 percent (20 million readers) in the number of literary readers from 1982 to 2002. And the rate of decline for adults ages 18 to 24 was 55 percent greater than that of the total adult population.
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