on Jane Friedman site:
Notwithstanding predictions by ebook pioneers of a paperless world; notwithstanding denunciations by indie anarchists that the feudalist book business was on the verge of collapse; notwithstanding publishers’ struggles to adapt their superannuated industry to a dazzling new technology—the print book industry did not founder. In fact, not long after the first wave of electronic books swept readers up at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, print went on to thrive and thrives to this day. According to Statista, “Print … remains the most popular book format among U.S. consumers, with 65 percent of adults having read a print book in the last twelve months.” While ebooks maintain a significant place on the reading spectrum, they have proportionately lost ground since their debut early in the 2000s.
What accounts for print’s unshakeable traction? Or to reverse the question, why haven’t ebooks conquered the paper world as the technology’s progenitors predicted? There are several answers.
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Print will never die. It has survived Kindle, and libraries are flourishing.
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I made the same prediction years ago, that print books weren’t going anywhere. The vast majority of my readers still prefer them to electronic versions. Where indie authors and publishers are missing the boat, in my opinion, is in accepting the high cost of their POD paperbacks. If they are able to reduce the price of print books – whether by negotiating with printers or off-set printing in quantity – they will probably sell a lot more books.
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This isn’t really relevant to the article, but one of the things I like about reading a print book is that I don’t have to turn it back on after I’ve left it for a few minutes, and it never needs charging.
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👍😂🤣😂 I can relate to that, Audrey:
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