{"id":9123,"date":"2013-03-25T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:59:11","slug":"the-future-of-print-books-new-data-on-ebooks-vs-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2013\/03\/the-future-of-print-books-new-data-on-ebooks-vs-print\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Print Books: New Data on Ebooks vs. Print"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your Book Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning, book designer, Mark Gelotte<\/a>,\u00a0 sent me a link to a recent Wall Street Journal article<\/a> reporting that the trend toward ebooks is leveling out and that non-fiction book readers tend to favor print. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 90% of e-book readers continue to read physical volumes.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for you as a nonfiction author? If you’re planning to self publish, you may want to offer both print and ebook versions. On a panel at the Harvard Medical School CME publishing course last week, Literary Agent and author of You Should Really Write a Book<\/em>, Regina Brooks<\/a> shared that quite a<\/p>\n

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Author and Literary Agent Regina Brooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

few readers asked her to sign a print copy but told her they were reading it by ebook. Another reader mentioned that he tended to flip back and forth between print and ebooks and often bought both.<\/p>\n

So, e-book\/print is not an either\/or decision. Publishers know this and do both. You should, too, and you may just get two sales in one.<\/p>\n

What do you read and buy? What are your publishing plans? Any questions for us? Weigh in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, book designer, Mark Gelotte,\u00a0 sent me a link to a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that the trend toward ebooks is leveling out and that non-fiction book readers tend to favor print. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 90% of e-book readers continue to read physical volumes. What does this mean…  Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,140,142],"tags":[830,1307,1308,281,1310,1311,1312,61,1309],"class_list":{"0":"post-9123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to-get-published","8":"category-more","9":"category-self-publishing","10":"category-self-publishing-2","11":"tag-e-books-2","12":"tag-ebooks-vs-print","13":"tag-future-of-print-books","14":"tag-mark-gelotte","15":"tag-pew-research-on-ebooks","16":"tag-pew-research-on-print-books","17":"tag-print-books","18":"tag-regina-brooks","19":"tag-wall-street-journal","20":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279205,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions\/279205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}