Are Readers Becoming Distracted?

Since my novel 'Maz and Me' was published on Amazon, I have been trying to generate interest in it.  I was told that the price, at £2.83 was 'too high by today's standards'.  I lowered the price to £1.98 and still there were very little sales.  

I am beginning to wonder if many people, with all the distractions of technology and social networking, have very little time for reading even a short novel?  Others tell me that they download 'loads of books' when they are on 'free offers.'  This makes life very difficult for a writer like me who, after writing a novel for three years, cannot be rewarded for the effort of providing for the reading public, what is described by a critic as a 'quietly and cleverly amusing' story. 

As a happy user of technology myself, it is interesting that I remember a time when I would sit and read a print novel after work in the evenings for hours.  Now, when I am reading using any kind of technological device, there is a temptation to stop for a few minutes and skip to an 'app' to see what is happening in the outside world, therefore becoming easily distracted from the story.  It concerns me that our children may no longer have time for lengthy deep reading and contemplation, which is so important.

When I was a child, we would sit together as a family (sometimes in front of an open fire) and quietly read.  There were no other real interruptions, except to perhaps glance into the flames and imagine the images you could see there.