Jokes about the decline in reading literacy among Americans abound, but a recent study confirms this troubling trend. Over the last 20 years, researchers found there’s been a 40% decline in the ...

A recent study has found a sharp decline in the number of Americans who choose to read for fun. The national report published last month in the journal iScience found that people reading for pleasure ...

The 74 reports that reading for pleasure among kids has significantly declined, driven by distractions like smartphones and altered school priorities.

Right here in Kentucky, we see encouraging signs. The National Children’s Reading Foundation’s initiatives are supported in ...

A comprehensive new study analyzing two decades of data from the United States has found a sustained and significant drop in the number of people who read for pleasure on a daily basis. The research, ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — People in the United States are reading less and less — especially for pleasure — according to a new study from the University of Florida and University College London. Researchers ...

After crunching numbers, a team from University College London and the University of Florida found that the number of Americans who read books for fun on any given day fell 40 percent between 2003 and ...

A paper published last month in iScience about how we spend our time generated plenty of headlines in the popular media. How many people enjoyed reading them? Good question. The work by authors at ...

Chances are you did not read anything for fun this holiday weekend. That’s what the research tells us. Fewer Americans are reading for pleasure, a steady decline over the past 20 years that comes with ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...