Just under 40 per cent of 18–24-year-olds said they don’t like reading according to a new annual survey.
The Read NZ National Reading Survey 2025 also revealed that, unsurprisingly, younger people are more likely to engage with e-books and audiobooks than any other age, with algorithmic recommendations from Instagram and BookTok coming in useful.
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura CEO Juliet Blythe says the organisation is committed to helping young people engage with reading in non-traditional ways and joins Paddy to explain how - plus what else the survey unveiled about our literary habits.
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