Physical books are far from dead, with recent research showing strong growth in paperback sales and declining eBook sales.<\/p>\n
Data from the UK Publishers Association\u00a0reveals that despite the initial popularity of eReaders, people are ditching digital novels and reverting to physical books.<\/p>\n
According to the data, eBook sales continued to decline\u00a0in 2016, while physical sales rose by 8% to their highest point since 2012.<\/p>\n
The figures also showed a 17% drop in total consumer eBook sales.<\/p>\n
When the Kindle launched in 2011, it\u00a0sold out<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in five hours.<\/p>\n eReaders sales have seen a decline since then, however, with research group Euromonitor International stating that\u00a0eReader sales have dropped by\u00a040% since 2011.<\/p>\n A study<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>conducted by Pew Research Center among American readers found that 65% of people had read a printed book in 2016, while only 28% had read an eBook on an electronic device.<\/p>\n The data shows that readers worldwide prefer reading a physical book over an eReader or tablet.<\/p>\n Physical books are far from dead, with recent research showing strong growth in paperback sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15785,43302],"class_list":["post-211474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-books","tag-ereaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211540,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211474\/revisions\/211540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Amazon\u2019s best-selling books of 2016<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"