Hollywood effected by novel reading decline

Hollywood Reporter: A recent report that fewer than half the adult American population reads novels or other literature in its spare time (post from July 23) is not good news for Hollywood. Plus: The importance of the "most important bestseller list in the U.S." - the one from the New York Times - is relative. Most of the books that appear on the N.Y. Times best-seller list will sell fewer than 200,000 copies. This number is less than one tenth of one percent of the US population. It is also a tiny fraction of the number of people who tune in to the least popular sitcom on any of the TV networks.