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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:11PM
spiders are my ecofriendly pest control system. southern house spiders are all over my house. i only kill them if they come out and run around. if they don't break the house spider rules they stay. i had Serena the Shower Spider for a while. I almost made a sign so guests wouldn't kill her. flies and other foolish flying insects get snared in webs fairly quickly. any roaches in the walls get eaten. they are not aggressive towards humans at all. i have had one on my hand before and even though i freaked out, it didn't even try to bite me. i've had them land on me in other scenarios too. no problem, but they broke the rules. the penalty is death.