Steve Donoghue thinks very few people read books voluntarily or walk around hoping to tell someone else about it.

“I can’t help but think the situation was made a whole lot worse by the world-wide proliferation of those intensely addictive distraction-devices called cell phones. If bookworms were rare in the pre-Internet days, I can only think they’re even rarer now that it’s possible to watch funny cat videos 24 hours a day.”

He goes on to talk about the industry.