Les Echos report on a recent Livres Hebdo survey (not freely accessible online) finding Faute de temps, les Français lisent moins, as the percentage of respondents who claimed (admitted ?) to reading a book in the past year fell quite dramatically, from 74 in 2011 to 69 currently.
Lack of time is the major factor (have the French suddenly gotten busier ?) -- though having kids under fifteen is also reported to cut into reading time.
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