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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6334029" data-attributes="member: 37579">Yes, I remember that from last year, although things have been silent since. ebooks *only* grew by X%, although the exact number seemed to vary by report. The thing is, Ebook sales reportedly passed hardcovers some years ago, so the latter is more of a niche.  (The cited artice mentions the dollar amount of hardcover sales by curiously omits the ebook dollar amount.) And it mentions that the fall's hardcovers just came out, which only boost hardcovers as few people pay hardcover prices for Ebooks; they wait for the paperback.And all books need a stand out title to boost sales. The article event mentions the lack of a "Hunger Fames" or "50 shades of grey" The article does not mention if paperback sales dipped as well. So this could be a general slowdown of non-hardcovers being hyped as a drop in Ebooks. And I wonder how much of that is the billion dollar PC gaming industry finding ways of using the carrot instead of the stick to combat piracy, by focusing on multiplayer experiences as a way of sneaking in the need to always be online and the like. And the advantage of cheap games on Steam, which has cemented itself as ubiquitous. When a game I want isn't on Steam it's an oddity and a couple physical games I've bought have loaded Steam to install themselves.</blockquote>