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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: 3, Touché) by VLM on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:11PM (1 child)
There was a hipster greenwashing movement a couple years back to get rid of your paper books and buy everything again in ebook format.
Apparently boomers have this phenomenon where theres some Beetles album that boomers have bought on vinyl then 8trak then cassette then cd then minidisk then m4a then mp3 then streamed. I guess the closest analogy is I bought a LOTR set from some used book reseller decades ago and got rid of it and bought the ebook versions some what more recently. It turns out the silmarillion is as unreadable in ebook format as paper format. Was worth a try I guess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:04PM
| It turns out the silmarillion is as unreadable in ebook format as paper format. Was worth a try I guess.
I have only attempted the paper(back) version, but cannot imagine how an e-reader would help.
I do, however, strongly agree with your assertion.