The Art of Book Reading (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Publishers Of books, newspapers, and magazines, editors, authors, printers, librarians, booksellers, and distributors Of books, teachers Of English and all other subjects, find their vocational justification and success closely bound up with the skills, taste, judgment, habits, economic level Of the reader-consumer. Especially do writers need readers. Is it not Obviously the sensible thing to recognize how essen tial the reader is, and therefore to encourage him, educate him, at tract him, cajole him, to induce him to become a better reader Of books? Instead Of bewailing the factors that are said to interfere with reading, why not use the affirmative, constructive approach to the reader, and make reading irresistible?

Research in the social sciences is concerned today with the fate of the serious book in our social economy because Of the indifference Of the reading public toward those books that serve to enlighten the citizen. In spite Of a rising educational level, the reading public does not Offer the forward-looking publisher significant encouragement to produce books that affect the thinking Of the nation to a marked degree.

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