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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: 2, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:34PM (4 children)
I never feel bad for anything. That's a sign of a life not lived in accordance with your own moral code.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:42PM (3 children)
Never feed bad, you say. Delusion of godhood, probably on drugs too
Must be nice never to make mistakes, never to do anything by accident, never rush to do something without fully understanding it first. I should audit your commit history on github to call you out for hypocrisy, assuming you haven't rebased everything to whitewash all your bugs.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:56AM (2 children)
You should really learn to recognize the fine rhetorical art of shit talking.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:28AM (1 child)
There is a time and place for shit talking. You throw it in whenever you feel like which is improper use. Don't fault others for your poor social skills.
A discussion about spiders being more beneficial alive than dead is not exactly a shit-talking or trolling scenario.
(Score: 4, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:07AM
Dude, I can talk shit while ordering a pizza. I am that good.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.