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Over the past six years when the Kindle, Kobo and Nook became popular many people thought that print was doomed and that the vast majority of us would be reading e-books. It looks like e-books were merely a passing fad and many people have switched back to print. Preliminary figures from the Association of American Publishers found that sales of e-books for trade publishers fell 14% in 2015 compared to 2014 and accounted for 20% of overall trade book revenue, down from 23% in 2014. Download Screensaver Bergerak Untuk Pc Richards here. Going beyond AAP’s member publisher sales performance, the Codex Group’s April 2016 survey of 4,992 book buyers found that e-book units purchased as a share of total books purchased fell from 35.9% in April 2015 to 32.4% in April 2016. The Codex survey includes e-books published by traditional publishers and self-publishers and sold across all channels and in all categories.

Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, the Publishers’ Association confirmed that digital content sales. After years on a plateau, physical book sales turned up, from £2.74bn to £2.76bn. Waterstones, the United Kingdom bookseller, in late 2015 that they are no longer going to carry Kindle e-readers. CEO James Daunt said there had been no sign of a “bounce” in Kindle sales, so the company was “taking the display space back” to use for physical books instead. Why has our love affair with e-books started to wane? The primarily reason is the price. The big 5 publishers, which includes Penguin/Random House, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins and Hachette implemented a new pricing mechanism that has seen the price of e-books increase from $9.99 to $14.99, or even $17.99.

Many people have lamented they are buying less because of the high prices. E-Readers have also increased in price and are driving people to hold onto older devices. The Amazon Kindle Oasis retails for over $299 and costs over $350 in Canada and the brand new Kobo Aura One costs $249.

I also think that e-books are inherently flawed because they have, making it harder to concentrate. There have been that that been conducted that say it is harder to concentrate when reading an e-book and this inhibits reading comprehension, because our brains cannot properly pause and digest what we are reading. When e-books first started getting popular I told every serious reader I knew that it was worth it for them to buy an e-reader and buy digital. You could read more and save money. In 2016, the opposite is true now, I can walk into an Indigo bookstore and save 40% off of the hardcover price a week after the book came out and it is cheaper than buying the e-book. Have you switched back from e-books to print? Download Opera Mini For Samsung Champ 2. What are the primarily reasons you have done so?

Except that the data doesn’t say what you *think* it says and that’s because it’s tracking only part of the market. What it is tracking are ONLY (absurdly priced) e-books from the Big 5 It seems unlikely that, in one year, e-book readership declined 14%. What is FAR more likely — and completely consistent with the data — is that Amazon was correct when they said to the Hatchet Faces you raise your prices, nobody’s gonna buy your damned e-books.

The moral of this story is NOT that folks aren’t reading e-books, it’s that the Big 5 have delusions of grandeur of a long-gone time when they were the only game in town. Odds are, those who read e-books are A) finding these hugely expensive e-books elsewhere — at libraries, usenet, various websites — OR B) are finding substitutes from indie authors OR C) all of the above. The bottom-line is that brick and mortar bookstores are a dying industry and on-line sales of paper books will be the only source in the not-too-distant future. When *that* happens, those not currently reading e-books will more and more ask themselves “so how come I don’t just order this as an e-book and get it right away?” The final nail in the coffin for the Big 5: It is just a question of time before the Stephen Kings, John Grishams, et. Come to understand what thousands of lesser authors already know: Forget paper, publish the thing yourself as a more reasonably priced e-book, sell a *bunch* more than you were selling before and keep all of the profits for yourself.