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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:42PM   Printer-friendly
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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


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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:51AM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:51AM (#503400)

    I own a Nook Simple Touch, from before the Glowlight. Will probably have to replace the battery in another year or two. Discontinued and no longer available in most places, either version. Which is why I said what I did, you have to know alternatives exist and seek them out, usually online, because nobody is marketing anything except Kindle any longer. Kindle won't read epub, lacks a memory slot or any simple (not involving Amazon's services) way of loading content.

    Oh, and the Nook blows for anything but paragraph level formatting. Forget tables and it sometimes screws up simple blockquotes. As I said, for reading a typical novel from begin to end it is good. Forget about any other use of it because you are rolling the dice on making it all the way through, especially if you lack an alternate reader for the book in case you hit a problem. I don't have Windows and won't install the Nook app on my phone (it was horrible at keeping the phone out of deep sleep) so it means avoid B&N's DRM on anything that might possibly be a problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:21PM

    by AndyTheAbsurd (3958) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:21PM (#503678) Journal

    Do the current-revision Kindles not show up as a USB mass storage device when plugged in to a PC, and allow you to place PDF or .mobi files on them? I know that the ones I've handled did - but that's limited to a 3rd-gen Keyboard and a not-sure-what-but-definitely-prior-to-current Glow.

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