Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided favorite: a survey of Australian publishers after last Christmas reported print books made up a comfortable majority of sales (ebooks were 4–18% and audiobooks 5–15%). This is despite regular warnings about the death of the book.
Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age—or are they more precious than ever?
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