Books are fast going the way of the dodo.
Nobody reads any more.
Sure, some of these are non-fiction, and most assuredly, Sturgeon s Law will apply, so you wouldn t want to read most of them, but those are the numbers. That s only 30,000 some-odd books, and there were closer to 50,000 published last year. Damn sure doesn t sound like books are about to go belly up to me. Not that reading has ever been that popular a sport anyhow. With the US population creeping up on a quarter of a billion souls, at least half of whom can read, even two million is considerably less than one percent.