In her book “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World,” linguistics professor Naomi Baron surveyed more than 420 students from the US, Germany, and Japan from 2010 to 2013 about their preferences for reading on paper versus a screen. 92 percent of the students in the US and Japan said paper, as did 98 percent of the German students.
Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese lawyer and human rights activist who escaped the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party this spring, has signed a publishing deal to tell his story.