Reading is alive and increasingly electronic

Times may be tough for neighborhood bookstores, but people are reading more than ever and e-books are nurturing bookworms who hunger for everything from blockbuster biographies to literary fiction. "It's really been all good news this year. Reading is becoming more popular in general," said Chris Schluep, senior books editor at Amazon, the biggest online bookseller in the United States. "It's so easy to buy a book now," said Schluep. "We're seeing reading grow across the population."