Sales of printed books have grown for the first time in four years, lifted by the adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, as ebooks suffered their first ever decline.
Lotinga said that strong sectors include adult colouring books, such as Lost Ocean by The Secret Garden illustrator Johanna Basford, as well as The Complete Alice, the 150th anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll’s famous fairytale.
The biggest hardback seller was The Girl on The Train, selling more than 546,000 copies – the newly released paperback version has sold 60,000 copies in just three days.
EL James’s Fifty Shades spin-off, Grey, sold more than 1 million copies in paperback, while To Kill A Mockingbird writer Harper Lee’s eagerly anticipated second novel, Go Set A Watchman, sold 360,000 copies.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/13/printed-book-sales-ebooks-decline
Why dont I just read books on an atm machine?
>>8033517
Everyman's Library gives me boners
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>>8033517
We coloring and moving pictures now.
>>8033506
Fuck ebooks, I'm glad they're in decline.
>>8033506
>EL James’s Fifty Shades spin-off, Grey, sold more than 1 million copies in paperback
>>8033529
I enjoy e-books. It allows me to indulge in one-off escapist pulp without paying full price, cluttering my shelfs or killing trees. It's also allowed a dying literary atmosphere to give itself a much needed boost through the advent of self publishing, for better or worse.
>>8033531
>all white babies are retarded autist
Good to know
>>8033529
Read the article, ebooks aren't losing ground to print, its just that people are reading less in general and you can't crayon colour on your kindle
>>8033723
I have seen a swarm of little nips doing essentially the same thing in unison.
>>8033743
That's not autism, that's their language.
>>8033506
>the adult colouring book craze
what a shame
i tried ebooks for a long time and i just don't like 'em. a book is prettier, a book doesn't give me headaches. i also read a lot of comics and those are horrible on an ereader
>>8034889
>i also read a lot of comics
eww
>adult colour book craze
I'm not sure I can articulate it in a way it deserves, but those things are one of the most embarrassing 'inventions' of recent times.
>>8034889
Have you tried super hero coloring books? May as well go full pleb.
>>8033506
>the adult colouring book craze
Something is wrong with our adults when they're still using coloring books, this generation is made of children.
>>8034897
I think comics could be cool if they had more interesting writers and artists.
>>8034967
Why are coloring books inherently childish
>>8035204
adults should know how to draw their own pictures
