Rumors of the expiry of the photographic print Holy Writ were massively exaggerated , it turns out . According to the L.A. Times , 571 million photographic print book were sold in 2015 , 17 million more than in 2014 . And ebooks , which had been forecast to reach 50 to 60 percent of book sales , were stuck around 25 pct .
The L.A. Times ’ Carolyn Kellogg looks at course in book publishing this retiring class , one of the other grown trends she pinpoints is a new boom in scientific discipline fable Word of God . She point to Simon & Schuster’slaunch of Saga , Houghton Mifflin Harcourtlaunching John Joseph Adams Books , and Orbitdoubling its Quran leaning next year . This is all based on the impression that , as Adams says , “ we are in a unexampled golden age of science fiction . ”
These two trends hopefully add up to one affair : healthier specialty bookstores . We ’ve lost a lot of science fiction and fantasy bookstores in the past decade or so , but the ones that remain seem to be hanging in there remarkably well . permit ’s desire that remain to be the case in 2016 !
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