Even given the economic downturn of the last couple of years, bestsellers have still been moving out of bookstores by the hundreds of thousands of copies, and there are chain bookstores everywhere. If reading is an indicator of a society's level of culture, what do these statistics, which suggest great vitality, really tell us?
即使這兩年大環境不景氣，暢銷書依然可以一賣幾十萬本；連鎖書店光鮮林立。如果閱讀是一個社會的文化指標，那麼這一串看似活躍的數字，究竟傳達出什麼樣令人憂喜參半的社會訊息？