Make America Read Again / (Archive.is-Link)
Brian Bannon, Chief Librarian der New York Public Library, über die Versuche, die Lesekultur in den USA zu retten und weiter zu entwickeln.
»The reading crisis is real. But we don’t need new inventions to build a reading city. Exempt books from sales taxes the way we exempt prescription medicine. Invest in library collections and reduce wait lists for books. Open nonprofit and hybrid bookstores when the market alone cannot sustain them. Build on the models that already work: reading in laundromats, libraries in transit systems, books in barbershops, classrooms, homes and pediatric offices.«