Large bookstores are closing locating , or close down totally . newspaper are shrinking . multitude are spending more and more time on the net . All of this leads to the prevailing sentiment : booksare give way because mass do n’t read . Except that thought is n’t true .
As Quartzrecently noted , sovereign bookstall have thrived in the last few years . Between 2009 and 2015 , the routine of autonomous bookstore in the U.S. went up by 35 percentage . The Guardianalso recently reported that the phone number of independent bookshop in the UK go away up in 2018 for the first sentence since the Second Coming of Christ of Amazon .
And while independent bookshop are expand , print book sales on the whole are steady , if slimly , rising too . According toPublishers Weekly , print sales rose by almost2 percentin 2017 , and continued to rise in 2018 , mostly due to the enduringness of adult nonfictionsales .
Vox suggestswe’re actually purchase more print booksbecauseof all our metre online , and in particular on our phones . A trip to a bookstall does n’t just make for a adorable good afternoon errand , it also makes for a potentially popular and pleasing Instagram post.#Bookstagramhas been used more than 25 million times on that photo - sharing platform alone . Bookstores are able to more efficaciously market their stores with social media as well .
Vox also wrote that because our phones are so omnipresent in almost every prospect of daily life history , we ’re increasingly drawn to strong-arm books as an escape . Indeed , some independent booksellersagreethat digitization has actually made the great unwashed crave physical books more — their look , their feel , theirsmell .
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