Recent trends in the information publishing industry are not pretty—at least for workers in traditional publishing establishments. In the pa...

Now that we're spending a lot more time at home, we're sure to be reading more books. Right? Maybe not. While the overall percentage...

If you read at least one book in the past year, you rank among the majority of Americans. According to a 2017 survey by the National Endowme...

In just 10 years, the number of bookstores in the United States fell from 12,558 to 7,548—a 40 percent decline, according to the Census Bure...

Nearly three out of four Americans aged 18 or older have read a book in the past year, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. Print...

Average household spending on books plummeted between 2010 and 2015, falling 41 percent after adjusting for inflation. But don't despair...

Book reading is down slightly from what it used to be, reports Pew Research Center, with print books accounting for all of the decline. Seve...

In 2013, the average household spent almost as much on digital book readers ($30.18) as it did on books ($32.53). Since 2000, average househ...

The number of Americans employed at book stores and news dealers fell 41 percent between 2004 and 2014, from 151,100 to 89,600—a loss of mor...

The average household spent $109 on reading material in 2012, up slightly from the $105 spent in 2010 after adjusting for inflation. What co...

Most Americans aged 18 or older are book readers. The 54.5 percent who read a book in 2012 was almost identical to the 54.3 percent who read...

Three out of four Americans aged 16 or older read a book in the past 12 months, according to a Pew Internet and American Life survey. The fi...