It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.

-Steve Jobs, talking out of his ass.

Even the critics can see the books are dying. Only 76.5 percent of book critics think it's never ethical to review a book without reading the whole thing. We would have hoped that 100 percent of them would think reading the whole thing is important.

Then we tried to get through the National Book Critics Circle’s blog post about ethics in book criticism and we saw where the other 23.5 percent was coming from.

Well, what do you do after controlling the most powerful White House in recent history? Why, shop your tell-all, of course! Karl Rove has put his memoir on the auction block today.

Considering Ted Kennedy got $8 million for his proximity to power, Rove should score a seven-figure deal. The Bush White House little romantic appeal for housewives, but Rove’s alpha-man account should make a good beach read for plenty of men. Insiders are predicting a $3 million sale.

Does anyone else remember that study showed that no one reads anymore? And yet the publishing industry will pay $3 million for what will surely be a limp memoir. Maybe print deserves its death.

So it’s the eleventh day of the strike. After reporting on the new reality TV programming and predicting the rest of the seasons of the shows affected by the strike, we’re all out of angles. So Conan’s in reruns, blah blah blah.

Fortunately, the good people at Pepperdine University conducted a survey about the strike. Thanks for making the story fresh again!

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