We're Losing Readers and It's Going to Take More Than a Book to Win Them Back

In 2025, just 1 in 3 children said they enjoyed reading in their free time, the lowest figure in twenty years of tracking, and whatever the publishing industry has been doing to reverse that trend clearly hasn't been enough. The solution isn't a better book cover, it's a collective effort that most of the industry is still failing to take seriously at the scale it actually requires.