{"id":182,"date":"2017-05-01T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/books\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:57:16","slug":"das-buch-ist-zurck-ebooks-im-sinkflug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/2017\/05\/01\/das-buch-ist-zurck-ebooks-im-sinkflug\/","title":{"rendered":"The book is back \u2013 eBooks in descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that? 10 or 5 years ago, book readers were still ridiculed as a dying guild. The eBook was supposed to be on the rise \u2013 only I had my doubts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/8b364968637c4658bb01712f7c4c22ed\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>Even though I have written books and been attached to the paper for almost 3 decades as an author, I know how to use and appreciate the advantages of electronic media (also as a blogger). But when I heard the ravings of the eBook reader and tablet PC owners with regard to eBooks, I always had doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was said: You can put tens of titles on the device and put them in the holiday case. I always have a library with me. You can also combine images and multimedia, that is the future \u2013 no one will read printed books in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had the thought: Ok, and suddenly the battery is empty and off with reading the library, through the head. Or: Read the eBook on your tablet PC in the sun \u2013 have fun. Or: And then someone steals your reader or tablet and the whole library is gone. Furthermore, there was the caveat that the eBooks were bound to a device or a provider. If he discontinued his offer, the stock or access to the online offers was often gone. Not to mention the regulation of the digital estate. Yes, I know I am hopelessly old school \u2013 at least in this regard. I just open a book, where the donkey's ear is, and start reading. So without starting a tablet or checking if the battery is charged. Reads well in the sun \u2026 and makes, when it is in the closet, powerful something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Creative chaos in the author&#039;s office with own works\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tf9zkiq.jpg\" alt=\"Creative chaos in the author&#039;s office with own works\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Creative chaos in the author\u2019s office with many of his own works \u2013 created in the last 30 years<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>New figures from the United States and England<\/h3>\n<p>Just (April 27, 2017) I came across the latest figures from the book market at CNN USA. The following applies to the USA: They set the trend, we in Germany or Europe are always lagging behind. And what do the numbers say?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the U.S., ebook sales in the first 9 months of 2016, according to the Association of American Publishers, are up 18.7 percent. % broke in. Printed books, on the other hand, were able to grow by 7.5 in the same period. % increase.<\/li>\n<li>In the UK, ebook sales fell by as much as 17 in 2016, according to the Publishers Association. %. Printed books and magazines could be printed at 7 o'clock in the same period. % Children's books increase by as much as 16 % literally \u2018stormed\u2019 upwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sales of eBook readers fell by more than 40 between 2011 and 2016 % (Source: Consumer researcher at Euromonitor International) \u2013 things are suddenly no longer sexy. Many people even consciously reduce the use of smartphones, tablet PCs and readers and turn to print. 65 % The American has read a printed book in the past year, while only 28 % I used an ebook. The era of ebook readers probably had its peak in 2011 and is now declining year after year.<\/p>\n<p>CNN already asks whether printed books are \u2018the new vinyl\u2019. An allusion to the fact that records are experiencing a rebirth and that electronic music offerings sometimes run out of rank. It's almost a cult of vinyl records. If you love printed books and libraries, you will probably feel it. It seems as if the printed book is not yet dead, but rather experiencing a rebirth. Or how do you see it?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that? 10 or 5 years ago, book readers were still ridiculed as a dying guild. The eBook was supposed to be on the rise \u2013 only I had my doubts.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,33,27],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-allgemein","tag-buch","tag-ebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.eu\/books\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}