Survey of reading

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following tidbit appeared in a recent summary by The Write News of a
survey sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and may be of
interest to (or evoke perverse amusement from)  readers of this list:

>Contrary to the overall decline in literary reading [10 percent and
increasing], the number of people
doing creative writing increased by 30 percent, from 11 million in 1982 to
more than 14 million in 2002.

In the current debate about copyright, what is not being said is that the
supply of information (and not just of "literature") increasingly exceeds
demand.  Copyright and business practices that do not take this into account
will not be successful.

Joe Esposito