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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: -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.