Death of Literature

On facebook the other day I was checking my messages and talking to people when one of the advertisements caught my eye. "Do you like Jane Eyre?" it said. Thinking of the book I enjoyed very much I read on- "Then check out the book!". I found the fact that I live in a Society where people are more familiar with a movie that was released less than 3 months ago than the VERY popular book written more than 100 years ago that the movie was based off of extremly depressing.