If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

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I'm a technologist, business writer, and book author. I first started writing in 2001, after I was downsized from a corporate job. In the early days of my writing career, I wrote features about ...