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This summer, an article was published in atlantictitled “The End of Reading Has Come,” presents statistics that seem to prove what people have been feeling all along: that new technology is the death knell for reading. But in examining the issue, staff writer Nathan Heller uncovered a more complicated picture, and in “A New Era of Reading,” he came to a different conclusion. Heller talks with David Remnick about surprising statistics about book sales and bookstores; BookTok’s impact on young readers; and how CEO James Daunt turned around a company that once seemed on the verge of extinction at Barnes & Noble.
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