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So she agrees with her son that “This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore.”?

Countless millions of young people read. Many of them enjoy reading the classics and many enjoy reading contemporary stuff. Many also write.

Literature isn't dying any time soon, despite what one person's son's experience might suggest.

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Where they at though? How much do they spend on books per year?

I like reading free stuff and it's mostly non fiction.

You couldn't convince me to read something like Paper Towns.

People all over the world read and pay for literature. You can find online communities on sites like 4chan (boards.4chan.org/lit) and reddit (reddit.com/r/literature and reddit.com/r/AskLiteraryStudies) with a strong focus on classics and contemporary literature. Also communities at any university with a solid humanities department of course.

I'd never heard of Paper Towns and I suspect it isn't what people would call literature in the sense the linked article meant the word, but a quick Google tells me it sold millions of copies.

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