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I’ve been coming at this same question, but from a teaching perspective. bryancrumpley.substack.…
(Not just shameless self promoting)
But essentially this is so much bigger than just the publishing industry. Boys aren’t reading. (Neither are girls, just not reading to a lesser degree than boys) and part of why is because there are not book…
I’ve been coming at this same question, but from a teaching perspective. https://open.substack.com/pub/bryancrumpley/p/why-read?r=9kvf3&utm_medium=ios
(Not just shameless self promoting)
But essentially this is so much bigger than just the publishing industry. Boys aren’t reading. (Neither are girls, just not reading to a lesser degree than boys) and part of why is because there are not books for boys, and also partly because less and less people are reading in general.
There are so many causes and what you point out is definitely some of them, but this is also just a viscous spiral for all ages of readers: Boys don’t read, so books for boys aren’t profitable, so books for boys aren’t published, so boys don’t read, and on and on and on.
And yes, this is a massive cultural problem.
Agree. 👍 Thanks for reading!