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This summer season, an article got here out in The Atlantic, titled “The Finish of Studying Is Right here,” and it put ahead statistics that appear to show the persistent feeling that new applied sciences are the loss of life knell of studying books. However, wanting into the query, the workers author Nathan Heller finds a extra sophisticated image, and he attracts a special conclusion in “The New Age of Studying.” Heller talks with David Remnick in regards to the shocking statistics on ebook gross sales and bookstores; the affect of BookTok on youthful readers; and the way the C.E.O. James Daunt circled Barnes & Noble, an organization that after seemed certain for extinction.
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