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Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print

posted by on Thursday March 16 2017, @08:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the there's-nothing-like-the-smell-of-pixels-on-silicon dept.

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Nielsen survey finds UK ebook sales declined by 4% in 2016, the second consecutive year digital has shrunk

[...] The shift was attributed to the explosion in adult colouring books, as well as a year of high-profile fiction releases, including The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. "Readers take a pleasure in a physical book that does not translate well on to digital," the Publishers Association report read.

But Nielsen's survey of 2016 attributed the increase in print sales to children's fiction and to younger generations preferring physical books to e-readers. A 2013 survey by the youth research agency Voxburner found that 62% of 16- to 24-year-olds preferred print books to ebooks. The most popular reason given was: "I like to hold the product." While Nielsen found that 50% of all fiction sales were in ebook format, only 4% of children's fiction was digital.

Steve Bohme, research director at Nielsen Book Research UK, who presented the data on Monday ahead of this year's London book fair, said young people were using books as a break from their devices or social media. "We are seeing that books are a respite, particularly for young people who are so busy digitally," he said.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/14/ebook-sales-continue-to-fall-nielsen-survey-uk-book-sales

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 16 2017, @09:14AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 16 2017, @09:14AM (#479715) Journal

    You gonna tell me the younger generation actually enjoy listening on vinyl [soylentnews.org] and wanking with Playboy [soylentnews.org]?

    What's next? Hours spent in sank MUD D&D and dwarf fortress?

    (if they start smoking weed, trippin' on acid, listening ummagumma, fairies wear boots or - good god, the blasphemy! - diamonds and rust, then maybe this world gets a second chance)

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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday March 16 2017, @02:01PM (2 children)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday March 16 2017, @02:01PM (#479776) Journal

    Can't. You asshole love your war on drugs too much. Weed is the reason there's an opioid epidemic, remember?

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 16 2017, @02:46PM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 16 2017, @02:46PM (#479804) Journal

      You asshole love your war on drugs too much.

      Come again? Where this came from?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @03:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @03:21PM (#479833)

        Looks like misdirected anger, possible misinterpretation of your last bit.