Global - Technology - Review

Falling sales in paperbacks have almost been offset by the big rise in sales of e-books, figures reveal. The popularity of e-book readers like Amazon's Kindle have fuelled the increase of digital books which are up 54%.  This leads researchers to suggest that downloads of e-books are replacing the purchase of paperbacks as they tend to be cheaper and are quick and convenient to download.

Overall, most readers still prefer proper paper books but the e-book is definitely ensuring that particularlythe younger market is being catered for and the popularity of reading is not diminishing.