There’s a lot of hand-wringing over the so-called “dumbing-down” of America. We don’t read, we can’t write except in and LOLcat-speak, we barely know who’s president.
Technology often takes the blame for some of this, with video games and the abbreviated speech of texts and Twitter squarely in the sights of our educators.
But e-readers are beginning to create new readers and are getting more people than ever to buy books and read them. We’re buying 57 books a second in the United States, between the paper and electronic varieties. And though sales of print books have been declining (not precipitously, mind you) over the past few years, sales of electronic books are increasing even faster.
Once you get past the price of the e-reader, the cost of an electronic book is considerably less than the cost of a new print book – averaging $9.99 vs $25.99. To be sure, many people who buy print books are buying them secondhand, and those figures aren’t included in the infographic below from RetailMeNot, but the book industry relies on those initial sales.
Days when people most choose the online sources for their smaller need. And with that now online readers have increased. As this is because they can find more sources online for choice of best books and not need to visit the places and this saves the time.
Not only this but now they do not have to be worried to keep the book safe for the future use as now people be the more lazy and careless. And that is why they find the online as the best option.