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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 fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:43AM (1 child)
Plus you don't feel at all bad about slamming a print book down as hard as you can on a big, hairy spider.
And, having woken it up and maybe even annoyed it, how much help is your book going to be?
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:00AM
Ah, well you see this is not an issue in the US like it would be in OZ. Here our spiders mostly come hand-sized or smaller and a good hardback book is generally enough to at least thoroughly stun them while you run screaming like a little girl.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.