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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 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.