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What Dig­i­ti­za­tion Means To Books

Posted at 8:02AM Tuesday 08 Jan 2013

The consensus has been that digitization, having had its way with music and newspapers and magazines and photographs and etc., would in due course have its way with books as well...(But) a lot of data came out during the course of 2012 that also suggests that (a) the growth in e-book sales has slowed substantially and (b) print sales are holding up pretty well.

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