A standard measure of a people's literacy is the number of books and newspapers it buys. Still, in an era of media transformation, great caution should be exerted, when looking at declining figures. Newspapers, nowadays, are read online (even the big editorial and journalistic articles and stories) and even books are nowadays bought and downloaded for Kindles, iPhones, iPads and the likes. Of the 8 books I bought this year, 6 of them were bought through Amazon - and that means all the traditional regular market studies will never consider them in their stats...
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