Are books getting worse?

Description: Are books worse than they used to be? I don't think so.

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→ Sources
https://fisherthebookseller.substack.com/p/about-those-4-million-books-from
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99943-book-output-topped-4-million-in-2025.html?oly_enc_id=3914I2519689E1W

→ Books Mentioned
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren

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00:00:00 Modern books are garbage?
00:00:58 The numbers
00:06:19 You can't blame TikTok for this
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