Friday, December 20, 2024
The share of adults reading news articles online in the US has fallen from 70 to 50 per cent since 2013. The share of Britons and Americans now consuming no conventional news media at all has ballooned from 8 to around 30 per cent... "Why the TikTok era spells trouble for the establishment,” Financial Times, Dec. 20, 2024. (Paywalled.)Thursday, December 19, 2024
"Bible sales are up 22% in the U.S. through the end of October, compared with the same period last year, according to book tracker Circana BookScan. By contrast, total U.S. print book sales were up less than 1% in that period."> Via “Top Links 585 Mexico’s laborious economy. VW exits Xinjiang. Bibles are booming. Joan Robinson on time & history,” Adam Tooze, Chartbook, Dec. 18, 2024.Sunday, December 8, 2024
Did GIs create the canon? William Faulkner only really became popular after the publication of Malcolm Cowley’s The Portable Faulkner, a paperback edition issued to GIs during the war. True for The Great Gatbsy too. "almost 155,000 copies were distributed in a special Armed Services Edition, creating a new readership overnight…" "Stranger Than Fiction — a bold survey of the 20th-century novel," Financial Times, Dec. 3. (Paywall.