E-book sales decline in US as trade for print picks up

Sep 3, 2019 by Al Jazeera

Since 2015, US readers have chosen old-fashioned print books over their digital versions, and independent bookstores are flourishing.

by Heidi Zhou-Castro –

Despite predictions about the death of books in print, sales of electronic books are actually down in the United States.

That is lead to a mushrooming of independent bookstores as readers renew their love affair with the printed word.

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro finds out why.