Print Books Are Here to Stay
Fallon, C. (2014, October 6). Print Books Outsold Ebooks In First Half Of 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014
When Amazon first launched the Kindle in 2007, bibliophiles everywhere worried about the closing of book stores. Print books were exceedingly less popular in the years following the new technology; however, recent studies show that the spike in eBook sales have leveled off and even dipped. Both hardcover and paperback books outsold eBooks, claiming 67 percent of the market.
"If the new trends continue, such warnings of the death of print books, and their potential benefits, may prove to have been greatly exaggerated."
"Recently, however, ebook gains seem to have stabilized with hardcover and paperback books still comfortably dominant."
Honestly, this article gave me peace of mind. As a lover of tangible books, the issue of eBooks taking over the world of reading made me apprehensive. For the past few years, I have bought books solely from bookstores in an attempt to save them from Borders' unfortunate fate. Hopefully these eBook-dwindling trends will continue, and we won't have to give up the comforting smell of books too soon.
As a fellow tangible book lover I'm pleased the ebook gains have stabilized and hardcover and paperbacks are still dominant. I think that even though ebooks became very popular rapidly there are still many people that prefer a hard copy and hopefully not every bookstore will have the same fate as Borders. Ebooks may have been very popular because it was a knew technology but now that people have gotten used to it they are no longer as popular.
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