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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) by edIII on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:04AM (11 children)
Ok, Garfield :)
But, seriously, what did the spider do? I used to kill them, till I realized that they kill the insects I *really* don't like.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:34AM (6 children)
He is a creature ruled by emotion but believes he is rational. He lacks empathy, or so the troll says, so anything he doesn't like can be murdered without a second thought.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:47AM (2 children)
If Garfield is such a psychopath, then why didn't he murder Odie or rape Arlene?
(Score: 4, Informative) by tekk on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:09AM
Because he never felt like it? Even a psychopath can understand that by raping Arlene or killing Odie he's probably not getting any more Lasagna out of John.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:05PM
The entire lifetime of that comic is a psychologically thriller, like those "Friday the 13th" horror movies where the audience knows all the actors are gonna get killed. Actually its kinda like a bullfight, everyone kinda knows the bull is getting it in the end, the drama is in what happens. Is today the day Odie gets it? No? Oh god the suspense damnit garfield just get it over with I can stand waiting so anxious
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:51AM (2 children)
I don't lack empathy, slappy, I just don't let it rule my rational mind like libtards do.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:33AM (1 child)
Now look here dicky, you've shown yourself to lack empathy and have said exactly that on more than one occasion. You can't hide like Derp Donald forever and simply deny your own words when they become inconvenient. You're like all the mild racists who simply can't consciously accept their bigotry so they deny deny deny. I'm sure you have empathy on occasion, probably reserved for "your kind of people". And to be clear, I'm not accusing you of being a racist, so lets skip that whole unnecessary tangent.
You are on the spectrum of sociopath asshole, the sooner you come to realize this the sooner you can work on changing the parts of yourself that you deny exist.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:06AM
I've shown myself to lack empathy only to those who are empathy's bitch. You lot are getting pounded in the ass so hard, so regularly by empathy that you've utterly lost any perspective on what a well-adjusted human being should look like.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:50AM (1 child)
Spiders are the bugs I really don't like though. Plus no bugs belong in the house. The rest can go on about their merry business outside as far as I'm concerned but spiders gotta die.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:04PM
As I read that a spider about the size of a dime came crawling across the side of the wall where I'm sitting about 7 inches from my face.
He crawled up a little ways across some tacked up papers and disappeared in a second of distraction when I looked back. No idea where he is now....
You just have to let it go. Like how scientists calculated that spiders could actually eat all of the humans on this planet and still be hungry. But they don't. They let us live. So live and let live...
:)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:39PM
I, too, save spiders, but you should know - some of them do bite people, and most of them have a nasty brew of infectious bacteria on their fangs.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:11PM
spiders are my ecofriendly pest control system. southern house spiders are all over my house. i only kill them if they come out and run around. if they don't break the house spider rules they stay. i had Serena the Shower Spider for a while. I almost made a sign so guests wouldn't kill her. flies and other foolish flying insects get snared in webs fairly quickly. any roaches in the walls get eaten. they are not aggressive towards humans at all. i have had one on my hand before and even though i freaked out, it didn't even try to bite me. i've had them land on me in other scenarios too. no problem, but they broke the rules. the penalty is death.