Maybe It's Time to Admit People Just Like Books?

Print book sales continue to rise. Did the publishing industry actually get the streaming era right?

Print book sales in the first half of 2021 are up 18.5% over the first half of 2020, which itself was up 2.9% over 2019. Even better news, from my point of view: “The increase in the first half of 2021 was led by the adult fiction category, where units rose 30.7%.” This is good news for book fans and, of course, fiction writers like myself. (If you want…