{"id":6547,"date":"2015-07-14T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:29:25","slug":"is-germany-a-nation-of-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Is Germany a Nation of Readers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jerrold\/13747961754\/in\/photolist-mWRU4m-q9EmiV-FfmC5-kUuVZt-dMutLi-5fohdW-xoVA6-9pyBwC-oey2N5-nKJjDy-dKMsfM-piGMdW-nK7qgF-a3taoy-o4HEcd-obFd7v-vEy32g-pznpvz-7Z7ZHR-5fogVU-oncR2B-as9s7-gcPE6x-9FXzhc-pmvpA-bqdbRX-9CaAbS-65iWDo-7SfNmz-rpNjmv-igTjs-hxD5sA-pxTnF-peJtPV-fmBL8A-6kw65C-82BLqW-5fjvhr-384ZoK-5fiUkZ-5foh7Y-5fiUhP-5fohaW-cZfKuf-gMQaz-9uTk4t-7XZJ3r-oSuss1-2p1wW-cZfKNJ\" title=\"reading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3691\/13747961754_f1e3ebb179_n.jpg?resize=214%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"214\" height=\"320\" alt=\"reading\" style=\"float:left; margin:8px;\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Annual research into German media consumption reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2015\/07\/germany-a-nation-of-readers\/\">a steady decline in readers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A solid quarter (25.1%) of Germans don\u2019t buy books at all,&#8221; Ingrid S\u00fc\u00dfmann reports. &#8220;Book buying in general seems to be correlated to age: the older you get, the less likely you will buy a book; 28% of Germans over 60 years of age didn\u2019t buy any books in 2015.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual research into German media consumption reveals a steady decline in readers. &#8220;A solid quarter (25.1%) of Germans don\u2019t buy books at all,&#8221; Ingrid S\u00fc\u00dfmann reports. &#8220;Book buying in general seems to be correlated to age: the older you get, the less likely you will buy a book; 28% of Germans over 60 years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Germany a Nation of Readers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[1062],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-reading","tag-germany"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}