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Posted Monday, October 17, 2011

Crown Books Returns, Sort of....

"Crown Books stores, which went out of business in the 1990s, are back -- sort of -- as 'pop-up' bargain booksellers, capitalizing on the demise of Borders and B. Dalton in Southern California....

...The good news is that Americans are reading more than ever in both print and digital formats, according to BookStats, an industry publication by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group. Paperbacks and hardbacks are gradually losing market share to e-books, but e-books are still just 5.8 percent of the $28 billion publishing industry."...

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