There are fewer new readers of digital books, and they tend to consume physical books as well. Photograph: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images“The physical book had become quite a cheap and tacky thing at the turn of the millennium,” Daunt says. They think it’s a disaster.”However, none of this is to say that digital publishing is the enemy of physical book publishing. Digital book sales overall are up 6%. The last thing he – or any seller or publisher of physical books – wants is the death of the ebook.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 06:00 UTC