For a while there, after the 2008 crash, it seemed possible that publishing would follow the music and journalism businesses into meltdown. The best literary news of 2013 is that…books have not succumbed to the downward-spiraling revenue trend. Sales of book in all formats actually grew by almost $2 billion in the last five years, and e-books have turned out to complement printed books without replacing them.
Adam Kirsch, "Bookends," The New York Times Book Review, December 15, 2013
Adam Kirsch, "Bookends," The New York Times Book Review, December 15, 2013
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