Sentences with phrase «decline of the number of book»

Though I think another part is there is a major decline of the number of book stores to market too the public

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A number of notable books, including Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, along with the decline of the middle class.

And decline may not have stopped: the number of consumers who bought books from independent shops fell from 12 percent in 2014 to 11 percent in 2016.

This year's data show a slight decline in the number of American adults who read print books: 63 % of American adults say they read at least one book in print in the past year, compared with 69 % who said the same the year before and 71 % in 2011.

By the way, the notion that e-book sales are declining is utter nonsense, and based merely on numbers from the biggest publishers, who due to their pricing policies are receiving a steadily decreasing portion of book sales.

«Last year saw a sharp decline in the number of consumer e-book sales, while physical books and journals enjoyed a resurgence.»

Overall, physical book distribution in Japan is suffering from a number of factors, including a 40 % return rate, 28 % decline in small bookstores, and an overall market decline of 17 % since 1996.

Even though the bibliophiles in the city eagerly wait for the annual event to happen every year, a considerable number of the book sellers, who participated in the festival, saw a decline of 20 percent sales in the last two years.

In fact, because of a number of factors, even with paper book sales declining, most traditional publishers are making more money every quarter.

With physical bookstores in English - language markets in «terminal» decline, a small number of companies with «no history with books» dominating the consumer book market, and «insane» pricing of books and e-books, the free market had gone too far, suggested the man who oversaw the rise and fall of Borders in the United Kingdom, Philip Downer.

But as the number of brick and mortar bookstores decline (and as many of the remaining ones cut author appearances), actually going out to speak at bookstores is just a small part of what you as an author can do to promote your book.

That looks like a double - feedback mechanism where you have declining sales due to high prices, but not enough new books to drive up the number of sales to make up for across the board price reductions.

As Stefanie Guzikowski recently wrote, because of the increasing number of new books appearing each year, plus the recent decline in bookstore sales, book publishing has become increasingly competitive.

With the creation of CreateSpace, Amazon's entry into the self - publishing arena, I suspect that it has gleefully noticed that as its published book numbers grew, Author Solutions declined.

If the economy deteriorates sufficiently, demand probably increases overall, in terms of the number of distressed consumers — but this is likely overwhelmed by the decline in confidence (to borrow) & the ability to repay (which will prompt write - downs on the current book of business).

This year, the number of art fairs declines to nine but the total number of fairs presents remains at 11 (including one book fair and a design fair).

Lex Machina reports that 316 ANDA cases were filed in 2016 compared to 468 in 2015; number of inter partes review petitions filed on Orange Book patents has declined since 2015.

The «Ruta» [2000] 1 Lloyd's Rep 359: Chris acted for the wages Claimants (not Defendants as stated in the report) in this action in which David Steel J. declined to follow a supposed rule set out in a number of text books and instead applied the Admiralty Court's wide equitable discretion so as to accord priority to the claims of unpaid crew members above the claims of the holders of damage maritime liens.

Braille, the tactile writing system used by the blind, is not as widespread in the blind community as you might imagine — less than 10 percent of blind adults in the United States are able to read Braille and the number of Braille - literate individuals has been declining for decades as assistive technologies, audio books, and other substitutes replace Braille texts.

The number of books that users of the service have published has climbed from about 2,000 to almost 100,000 in that period, Coker notes, and yet the average price has actually declined.