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New data suggest that the reading public is ditching e-books and returning to the old fashioned printed word.
Sales of consumer e-books plunged 17% in the U.K. in 2016, according to the Publishers Association. Sales of physical books and journals went up by 7% over the same period, while children's books surged 16%.
The same trend is on display in the U.S., where e-book sales declined 18.7% over the first nine months of 2016, according to the Association of American Publishers. Paperback sales were up 7.5% over the same period, and hardback sales increased 4.1%.
"The print format is appealing to many and publishers are finding that some genres lend themselves more to print than others and are using them to drive sales of print books," said Phil Stokes, head of PwC's entertainment and media division in the U.K.
Stokes said that children's book have always been more popular in print, for example, and that many people prefer recipe books in hardback format.
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-books/index.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:29PM (3 children)
I heard they have "books on tape" on youtube now, which raises another kind of DRM problem, but fortunately youtube downloaders are readily available to extract the audio.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:01AM (1 child)
It is called "LibreVox", public domain audio books. Try here: https://www.librivox.org/ [librivox.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:16AM
Bah! Direct links to mp3 files! Where's the challenge? Where's the guilty pleasure of using a third party tool to get to the mp3 files?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:31PM
If all you want is the audio you need no download tool, just a computer with Audacity installed; Audacity is free and supported in Apple, Windows, and Linux. With Windows type mmsys.cpl into the search box, click on an empty space and you can unhide the hidden stuff. Then, just record the audio. There are detailed instructions on Audacity's web site. KSHE plays six full rock albums every Sunday night and I almost always record it. Sometimes I'll record music from YouTube as well.
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