{"id":4356,"date":"2013-01-28T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2013-01-28T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T08:40:07","slug":"ebooks-vs-textbooks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/ebooks-vs-textbooks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebooks vs Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ebooks vs Textbooks<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Change at a Glance<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>Rising eBook sales almost make up for decline in old-fashioned paperbacks. Sales of eBook novels quadrupled last year, almost making up for the sharp decline in sales of old-fashioned physical books, new figures from the book industry show.<\/h5>\n<h5><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>The sales increase of \u00a354 million almost entirely made up for the \u00a357 million decline in sales of traditional paperback novels. According to the PA\u2019s new Statistics Yearbook, sales of physical books were \u00a3489 million in 2011, down from \u00a3546 million the year before.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>However this decline was almost entirely compensated for by the 330 per cent increase in sales of e-novels. Total fiction sales \u2013 including both physical and digital books \u2013 fell by \u00a33 million to \u00a3559 million. A sharp decline in sales of physical fiction titles has been almost entirely accounted for by sales of ebooks.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>eBook sales have been boosted over the last year by strong sales of erotic fiction. This is due to the lack of a book sleeve on an reader, which ensures that the book being read remains anonymous.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebooks vs Textbooks Change at a Glance Rising eBook sales almost make up for decline in old-fashioned paperbacks. Sales of eBook novels quadrupled last year, almost making up for the sharp decline in sales of old-fashioned physical books, new figures from the book industry show. \u00a0 The sales increase of \u00a354 million almost entirely made &#8230; <a title=\"Ebooks vs Textbooks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/ebooks-vs-textbooks-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Ebooks vs Textbooks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[4776],"tags":[520,2948,517,492,518,476,519],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}