We already noticed it in the daily twitter stream: when it comes to book reviews on twitter, the 'low' genres (at least according to connoisseurs) dominate the charts: fantasy, diaries of disease sufferers, 'regional work', howto's and erotica. No news, you might say, but there is more to it. Thanks to the advent of the e-reader, publishers (at least in America) are gaining insight into what people actually read. And that picture does not exactly please the advocates of cultural upliftment of the people ...
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