Twilight of the Books

This article presents us with a simple fact: less and less Americans are reading every day. However, today it is far more common to see people sit down with their laptop and blog or tweet, than it is to see them sit down at a coffee shop and read a book. Interestingly, the article completely and totally disregards the idea of reading online, which leaves one to wonder how the author thinks most people will read his article in the first place, as well as leaving out the increasingly popular and seemingly unstoppable giant that is the internet, which has for the most part engrossed the entirety of American culture. Did the author intentionally leave out this monstrous detail? The article, written in 2007, fails to make any reference or acknowledgment of the internet's existence, even though it would make the article significantly more accurate if it had pointed out some sort of statistic relating to the number of present-day internet readers, compared with the number of book readers in the past.