I found the quote in the subject line online, and it led to the following article.
It fits me...and you?
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As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, alarming booksellers that watched consumers use their stores to find titles they would later buy online. Print sales dwindled, bookstores struggled to stay open, and publishers and authors feared that cheaper e-books would cannibalize their business.
Then in 2011, the industry’s fears were realized when Borders declared bankruptcy.
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Now, there are signs that some e-book adopters are returning to print, or becoming hybrid readers, who juggle devices and paper. E-book sales fell by 10 percent in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers. Digital books accounted last year for around 20 percent of the market, roughly the same as they did a few years ago.
E-books’ declining popularity may signal that publishing, while not immune to technological upheaval, will weather the tidal wave of digital technology better than other forms of media, like music and television.
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I still buy from Amazon. I don't often buy popular; and many of the dead-tree versions that I want and have tried to get from physical bookstores have to ordered anyway, and at a greater price than Amazon (throwing side-eye at the brick and mortar Barnes & Noble I visited last week.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/bu...from-dead.html