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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.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday March 16 2017, @09:19AM
Transmission and engine manuals for my older Ford E350 van I just got off of Craigslist.
I will also get the digital version if I can find unencumbered versions - but I still all too well remember my first experience with DRM when I bought a CDROM version of ICMaster and got something I could not use at all. If its some sort of proprietary format, I know I am going to run through a helluva lot of printer paper as I have to treat the thing as a book chained to the bookcase, so I take the easy way out and just get a printed copy.
Ok, I am older, retired, and need my glasses all the time. I like being able to pick up a book, open it up, and read. Most stuff out there isn't worth keeping, or its very fungible information... I don't need books for that. Web-pages are fine. But when it comes to studying something intently, I still want my books. I must have ten books on Arduinos above me right now, a book on the Parallax Propeller, and Micrium's uCOS/II book. And I have several shelves full of books on Assembler, C++, TCPIP, and Networking.
Also printed books are great for the bathroom. They provide a welcome diversion while I'm on the urn.
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