RIP Reading Redux. Big 5 CEO David Shelley Plays the ‘Smartphones Did It Card’ at the Worst Possible Moment
Hachette CEO David Shelley blames smartphones for the reading crisis in a widely syndicated op-ed. The correlation is real. The causation isn't - and his own history should have warned him.
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