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Posted on 08/10/2025 7:10:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor.
AP to end its weekly book reviews
Dear AP book reviewers,
I am writing to share that the AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1. This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are using. Unfortunately, the audience for book reviews is relatively low and we can no longer sustain the time it takes to plan, coordinate, write and edit reviews. AP will continue covering books as stories, but at the moment those will handled exclusively by staffers.
I want to thank you for your time and commitment to reviewing books for the AP. All current review assignments through Aug. 31 will be honored and your invoices will be paid. (Please submit those as you normally would, and file final invoices by Sept. 15.)
I want to take a moment to thank Carolyn, who has coordinated reviews and made sure relevant titles were covered, and Mark, who has edited the reviews and incorporated best practices for trying to get reviews to appear in search results and get as many readers as possible.
Thank you again for your diligence and work on reviews. I wish you all the best.
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No one reads anymore. Society doesn’t even seem to think that’s a problem.
It’s not that people aren’t reading, it’s that people aren’t reading woke crap. Go to any bookstore and tell me what you find. It’s all DEI. The entire progressive culture is in freefall collapse.
Associated Propaganda cannot die soon enough.
Applied Propaganda has book reviews, who knew?
My nephew was joining the Marines right out of high school. As a gift, I gave him the complete DVDs for JAG. He loved it.
So then I collected the entire Marine series of books, The Corps, by WEB Griffin, for him. I love the series and have read it so often it’s just old and familiar now. He didn’t read a single one.
Turned out he’ll watch TV but he won’t open a book. My interest in that part of my family evaporated rapidly. How do you communicate with a non-reader?
Propaganda outlets have to deal with MARKET FORCES now that USAID is gone.
Yeah, you’re right.
The big chain bookstores highlight all the books with a leftist tilt.
They wonder why they’ve lost so many customers.
Ah, yes. Just as another powerful conservative author reaches NUMBER ONE on the best sellers list.
Mark Levin
El Rush-Bo called him The Great One
His latest best seller: On Power
El Rush-Bo also called AP.. APO
Associated
Press
Obama
These days most books are bought by women. Male readers are a lower percentage. Not me, but overall.
People (okay, it's mostly women) are reading crap, much of it woke.
There's a surprisingly large market for self-published romance & erotica Kindle books.
Fifty Shades of Grey is the prime example, but even before that, many female authors were pumping out their semi-literate ebooks to a large number of waiting fans.
Romance Authors Thrive in the Self-Publishing Era.
Self-Published Romance Novels Dominate The Book Market.
A Smashwords ebook survey showed how self-published romance ebooks dominated the ebook market.
In short, the romance genre accounted for a staggering 87% of the top 100 bestsellers on Smashwords and their aggregators.
Should I repeat that number? Eighty-seven percent! The number must make all romance authors smile.
While it is impossible to compare this data with sales of self-published romance novels on Amazon Kindle, one could logically assume that romance also dominates Kindle Unlimited and Kindle ebook sales.
Both Levin & Hannity are part of Conservative Inc. Both were huge supporters of Bush 2. Both remain Neocon supporters of foreign wars.
Neither are all that bright.
The lying leftists said “It only stands to reason Trump would want to end the US Department of Education. Only illiterate fools would vote for his party and he wants to keep Americans dumbed down.”
The bosses of AP strained and strained themselves finding book reviewers who could not only read sentences but also write or dictate to someone who could write down the review words.
Exhausting.
I have read several times that some school districts and colleges say they no longer require reading “a book” which they call “long form reading.” Students now read 2-4 pages of Wikipedia or similar sources where someone else has condensed the content as the students no longer have the habit of reading a full book.
Look at this.....AP itself wrote about that.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/not-so-great-expectations-students-are-reading-fewer-books-in-english-class/
and the leftist Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
By Rose Horowitch
October 1, 2024
...((About Nicholas Dames a college professor))...
He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
RE: ...bookstores highlight all the books with a leftist tilt.
Yes.
I recently walked past a sales table full of the new book by the delusional lawsuit lottery viper E. Jean Carroll:
Not My Type, A Woman vs. a President. That crap pile debuted at #2 in the US. Her earlier book What Do We Need Men For? was “about hideous men and whether we need them.”
How do we recover from a generation that never learned to see the world of their own imagination rather than the worlds created by the imagination of movie makers? It’s like loving comics but then not graduating to the next level of a more detailed world.
30 years ago I made videos for BBN and for IBM Research about how they were going to overcome reading and math difficulties for children. They were going to use computers to fix the problems we saw developing, but the fixes never happened. The problems became worse and the teachers were lost so that the students were lost.
I have a 41’ hallway with floor to ceiling bookcases on each side. And at the end is a library with a 10’ ceiling and a library ladder to reach the tops. Not to mention the bookcases in various other rooms and the boxes of the books that won’t fit stuffed in the closets. And already I’m wondering how anyone will deal with all the collections I’ve accumulated throughout my lifetime.
Bays and bays of books on the Civil War. Professional magazines from my times as Editor - Ada Letters, Lisp Pointers - some of which are probably lost in the dust of computer history from when I started them on xeroxes I got companies to sponsor and mail out to my subscribers for free before I got organizations I chaired to take them on.
Hey! I have another way they could help their declining budget—start telling the truth!
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