In a Publisher's Weekly article, the CEO of scholastic books sent out a call for the promotion of worldwide literacy. The same day, an article in the chronicle of higher education told of a study that indicated students retain more of what they read in on paper than of what they read online.

Now, at the risk of being an optimist, I'll extrapolate some potentially excellent news for us book writers. Global literacy will lead to more book readers, so if the book reading within the currently literate population diminishes, but at the same time gets replaced with reading among the newly literate populations, we stay in business. Maybe even prosper.

With this happy thought in mind, let us all run out and support global literacy.

I wonder, would it be inappropriate to suggest extending generosity to Perelandra College.