Do We Read Books?

I was reading an article the other day that claim most of us do not read books. The author of that article believe that it was useless for authors to promote their books online because people were not online in search of newly released books.

I tend to disagree. A lot of people buy books online. If they did not, sites like Amazon.com would be out of business. Additionally, a lot of authors promote their books on blogs. Those blogs may not reach all of the potential consumers just by reading the blogs, but the potential for the book promotion exist through word of mouth. After all, a large percentage of readers have purchased books based on word of mouth.