But as the prices of
printed volumes declined, scribes found themselves without work — like COBOL programmers in the 1980s.
Not exact matches
However, it expects revenues in all other
printing areas to continue to be hurt by a
volume decline caused by reduced
printed advertising.
The global
printing industry has gone through a period of structural changes, with a
decline in commercial
printing volumes, market consolidation and M&A prevalent around the world.
Jim Hamilton from InfoTrends spoke and said that the overall
printed book
volume is in
decline.
So, if you actually encompass all of the different publishing models for e-books now, their rise has been absolutely spectacular, and in sheer
volume (ebooks) are absolutely dominating
print books, they haven't
declined at all.
The year - on - year reading for retail sales
volume printed a 0.3 %
decline, however, which is the first negative annual reading in four years.