Amazon, the dominant online bookseller, was forced by the major book publishers to increase their e-book prices, raising prices by an average of 5 per e-book over time.

In the last several years, e-books have become a mainstay of the publishing industry.

However, the demise of printed books as a result of the introduction of e-books has not materialized as predicted.

The lower growth rate followed several years of double-digit declines in e-book sales.

Both hardcover and paperback books still rule the market, with approximately 3 billion and 2.5 billion in sales in 2019, respectively.

While e-books are helping the publishing industry, they can be a bit daunting for readers.

If you are used to going to a local bookstore, browsing the aisles, and perhaps reading the first chapter before purchasing, you still can with e-books, albeit with a little adjustment.

They may find it wrenching to abandon their shelves of books for a single slab of plastic.

Readers may also compare the quality of illustrations between the two formats and find the print versions superior.

Some readers also experience some eye strain using an electronic device instead of a printed book.

Print books are still a little more expensive than e-books, but not all that much.

President Barack Obamas memoir, A Promised Land, is currently 17.99 for the Kindle edition, and 23.96 for the hardcover.

John Grishams past bestseller, The Guardians, is 9.99 for the Kindle edition, 9.64 for the paperback version, and 14 for the hardcover.

You can get Charles Dickens: The Complete Works for Kindle for 2.99, while Bleak House alone is 5.95 in paperback.

Both prices are bargains, of course, because the publishers dont have to pay anyone for the rights.

Books on paper are difficult to carry around, especially hardcovers.

If youre an avid reader and youre going on a trip, or if youre just stepping out to a coffee shop, an e-reader or iPad is a far lighter burden than a book, or a stack of them.

A e-book might be priced about the same as the paperback edition but less than the hardcover.

Theres also the satisfaction of having an entire library at your fingertips, not to mention an infinite supply just a click away, ready to download instantly.

In addition, e-book buyers have the advantage that the internet gives consumers of any products: No space constraints.

Just about everything ever published is available, all the time.

You must recharge an e-reader or any other electronic device.

And, if you are one of the millions who spend the entire workday in front of a computer, reading your favorite author on a computer screen in the evening may not appeal.

E-books arent much less expensive than their paper counterparts, at least when it comes to new books from major publishers.

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