The book industry is facing economic headwinds as people migrate to online sources.
For the past 8 years I have bought at least 20 books ON AMAZON KINDLE. Saves a lot of space at home.
Besides, most of the books on print that I want to read are available at our library system.
I treasure my printed books as the online editions of reference books like dictionaries have their definitions changed.
I have a new condition Chicago Manual of Style, an compact OED with magnifying glass, a Black’s Law Dictionary 5th Edition, a knock-off Webster’s 2nd Ed. (I cannot afford a real one yet).
Even ABE Books doesn’t carry much in the way of old print dictionaries. They are needed!
Besides the publishing industry is liberal elite and corrupt.
All those books people like Biden say they wrote and sell?
The ‘publishing industry’ takes orders from ‘backers’ who buy 30,000 at a time - and pay the publishers NOT to print the books so they don’t show up on the secondary markets... (which would make it obvious the book sales were really illegal donations.)