"When people - adults as well as children - spend hours on email or Facebook, they are in fact reading a huge amount. The problem is, it is usually self-centred, low-brow stuff. It's not that reading is in decline; it's that good reading is. And difficult reading, too - not always the same thing."

About the decline in book reading due to electronics. Even though it's from 2009, it has some interesting information.

Even though it's from the Catholic Journal, this article makes some good points about advertising.

An article about the importance of having a large vocabulary and the best ways to teach vocabulary.

A short, playable video game that's based on the novel. The page says it was originally for Nintendo, but I don't think that's true. I looked for the actual Nintendo game last year, and it looks like this was specifically created/programmed for the Internet.

This music video (directed by Johnny Depp!) uses "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" as its storyline.