This one was just too good to pass up!
“For most of my lifetime, I’ve heard that reading is dead. In that time, disco has died, drive-in movies have nearly died, and something called The Clapper has come and gone through bedrooms across the nation. “But reading? This year, about 400 million books will be sold in the United States. Overall, business is up 1 percent—not bad, in a rough economy, for a $15 billion industry still populated by people whose idea of how to sell books dates to Bartleby the Scrivener.”
—Author Timothy Egan, responding to Steve Jobs’s comment that “people don’t read anymore,” in “Book Lust,” New York Times, Feb. 20.

I found it in American Libraries Direct 2/27/08 - which is an e-mail sent to me every week.