“出版物越多,每一本书的销售量就越少。销得越少,出得越多,多到即使严肃的读者也开始放弃了。”这是美国一所著名大学的教授、研究院院长柯尔南,在其著作《文学的死亡》中的概括。书中对美国20年来学术界如何眼看文学时代的结束,列举了十分翔实的报告及使美国学术界深感忧虑的预测。这位教授指出:在美国今天的社会中,文学以及一切书籍的遭遇——“首先是很少有人阅读了”。现在美国有60％的成年人不读书,原因是电子媒体的发展,使读书成为“不需要”了,因此 “The more publications, the less sales per book, and the less sales, the more and the more, even the more serious readers, begin to give up.” This is a professor at a prestigious university in the United States who studies Conan Dean, in his book “The Death of Literature” in general. The book on the United States for 20 years how the academic community to see the end of the literary age, citing a very informative report and the American academia deeply worried prediction. The professor pointed out: In today’s society in the United States, literary and all books encountered - “First, very few people read.” Now that 60% of adults in the United States do not read books, the reason is that the development of electronic media has made reading a “no need” and therefore