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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Print is not in decline. If anything, with growing population and literacy world-wide, print has never been healthier as a medium for dissemination and consumption of information.
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This may be relevant:
Why newspaper markets are growing in China and India, while they decline in the US and UK
Where I live, newspapers are collapsing, with circulation down by half, and advertising revenue fallen much more sharply.
Re paper books in the US:
Strange as it may seem, we know of no reliable, publicly-available way to get comprehensive statistics for book sales . . .
My impression is that sales of bound books are holding up much better, in the US, than periodicals. Book shelf space, in stores, is way down, but a lot of that is due to Amazon selling loads of printed paper.
Is the US a leading indicator for the rest of the world? Don't know.