It is not that readers have disappeared, but rather they are being carved up among more niche publishers. Taking novels, for example, in the past there were fewer types, but now we have martial arts novels, detective novels, mysteries, science fiction ....
以小說為例，以前沒有那麼多類型，現在有武俠、偵探、推理、奇幻等，不同類型的小說自然吸引了不同的讀者。