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13 Utterly Disappointing Facts About Books

SO SAD.

1. In a 2012 survey, almost a fifth of children said they would be "embarrassed" if a friend saw them with a book....

2. ...and 54% of those questioned said they preferred watching TV to reading.

3. Fifty Shades of Grey is now the best-selling book of all time in Britain.

4. Snooki is a New York Times best-selling author.

5. So is Jessica Alba.

6. This Justin Bieber book? Also a New York Times best seller.

7. Book and e-book sales are down 9.3% in the U.S.

8. The last Borders bookstore closed in September 2011. Barnes and Noble, which is battling a steady sales decline, has been closing about 15 stores a year.

9. Ebook sales have officially topped printed book sales as of 2011.

10. Forks, Washington, now has Twilight-themed stores designed to cash in on tourists.

11. And the four-book Twilight series has sold over 116 million copies, almost half as many as Stephen King's entire canon.

12. It's gotten so bad, books are now being MASSACRED for crafts.

13. And the worst: One in four Americans said they read ZERO books in the past year.