Good news!

[Beet]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/physical-book-sales-are-staging-a-comeback-after-many-years-of-decline-2016-08-22

Hopefully this means the few remaining decent book stores will stay open.

[Enduro]

Woo! I love books, and as much as I try, I just can't do it on my phone. Super pumped that the e-reader trend is dying down.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Glorious news!

[FairBol]

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[PollsDontLie]

I'm not sure I agree this is good news...but congrats if you are happy about it!

[LLR]

I'm not sure I agree this is good news...but congrats if you are happy about it!

Are you anti-book?

Also, welcome to the site! If you need any assistance, I'm here to help!

[PollsDontLie]

I'm not sure I agree this is good news...but congrats if you are happy about it!

Are you anti-book?

Also, welcome to the site! If you need any assistance, I'm here to help!

Thanks!  It's not that I'm anti-book per se, it's just that I'm a digital guy.  When you can have unlimited access to every book ever written (well, that still exists and is digitized) through a single iPad, that's just power beyond what even Kings had throughout history.  That and books often take on odors (which I get some people like).

[RFayette]

Glorious news!

[TDAS04]

Glorious news!

[Mr. Smith]

Glorious news!

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I'm not sure I agree this is good news...but congrats if you are happy about it!

[Speed of Sound]

Judging by the thread title, a few more books and a few less listicles might do you some good.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Sometimes physical books are handier and sometimes they are not. When you are reading material that you need to be able to readily go back and forth between pages, the book is far more useful than the ebook. For textbooks, if you think you'll want to keep it as a reference, the physical book is handier as etextbooks are usually rentals rather than purchases.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/physical-book-sales-are-staging-a-comeback-after-many-years-of-decline-2016-08-22

Hopefully this means the few remaining decent book stores will stay open.

Wow a post by Beet that is actually positive

[angus]

I'll believe it when I see it.

A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the waiting room at my son's dentist office, reading a book--1491 it was, by Charles Mann--which to me seems a perfectly normal thing to do when you're in a waiting room at a dentist's office, and when I looked up I noticed that all the other people in the room--there were four of them--were fingering and fondling their sleek, flat, black dildos.  The book I held in my hand represented the only printed word being read, despite the huge piles of magazines and paperbacks available on the large office cocktail table in the middle of the room.  At the time, Pokemon Go didn't yet exist.  I imagine that the situation would be even worse today.  At least they were sitting in their chairs fingering their fingertoys.  If I were sitting in the same office today, I imagine that they'd be swatting the air and jumping up in unison.

Beet, you rarely seem upbeat about anything.  Usually you're about as sour a poster as anyone could create, but I'd be surprised if your newfound joy is substantiated.  Books seem to be a thing for me and my colleagues to discuss over scotch in the wee hours of the morning.  I doubt anyone born today will even hold a book, well not to read it at least.  Maybe as a curio from Grandpa's dusty basement shelves, they'll show it off to their classmates.  Or use them to swat flies or stand the doors open on windy days.  Better yet, if Donald Trump is elected, a thing to burn, especially if they extol the virtues of the immigrant nation.

[Devout Centrist]

Good News Everyone!

[Green Line]

Now we just need newspapers to start rebounding.

[DINGO Joe]

I am eagerly awaiting ATLAS--the book.