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No one buys books, cd's, dvd's, blurays, magazines, comics, games, and many other things that were bought a lot 10-30 years ago. These days everything is online
by sigio 2y ago
No one buys books, cd's, dvd's, blurays, magazines, comics, games, and many other things that were bought a lot 10-30 years ago. These days everything is online and (usually) subscription based.
Looking at myself, the only things I buy regularly, is food ;)
- constantcrying 2y agoSurely CDs have become Spotify, tidal. Blu rays have become Netflix, Disney, etc. magazines have become websites, etc. The content is still there just the medium has changed. Has the same been true for books though? eBooks do exist of course, but did they replace the publishing industry that existed 50 or a hundred years ago?
- vundercind 2y ago50 or 100 years ago, people read a hell of a lot more fiction than they do now.
- constantcrying 2y agoI suspect in the past they also read far more nonfiction.
- vundercind 2y agoI wouldn’t bet on it, unless we’re counting user-generated posts online, and clickbait “articles”. Which, maybe we should. [edit] JFC I misread your sense of “read”, I think we agree.
- constantcrying 2y agoUpdated my post. I don't think I encountered that "bug" in the English language before.
- matwood 2y agoTrue for fiction books. But if you think about fiction generally, as the poster said, the medium has changed. People still love fiction, but now it's movies and shows.
- sigio 2y agoAs I said, subscriptions, not buying
- constantcrying 2y agoWhat is the Spotify of books?
- exe34 2y agoAmazon/Adobe DRM? They can stop working at any time.
- constantcrying 2y agoNeither of these provides books as a subscription service as far as I am aware.
- skydhash 2y agoAmazon has Kindle Unlimited and O'Reilly have/had Safari
- KeplerBoy 2y agoIt seems obvious that books lost some market share. People have a limited amount of time for entertainment and have a lot more choice between Netflix, YouTube, Books and thousands of other things than they did back then.
- constantcrying 2y agoYes, that is what I meant. Books as a medium is just a much smaller industry with far fewer customers.
- paulddraper 2y agoEbooks and audiobooks.
- constantcrying 2y agoAs far as I can tell eBooks aren't significantly more popular than physical books. Surely the publishers cited in the article wouldn't have neglected that topic if it was actually a major revenue stream. As far as audiobooks go I don't know. Do you have any numbers?
- koito17 2y agon = 1, but I purchase physical books, comics, references, etc. under two circumstances: - cannot find an easy way to de-DRM media available on online stores. I want the ability to copy epub files across my devices and read offline. - the digital version is a poor-quality scan. This frequently happens with comics. This is embarrassing to discuss normally, but an additional perk of physical comics and light novels is that I can look at the obi and get reminded what I was doing in the past, where I was in the past, what was happening in the past, etc. especially for those which I have finished reading. The subset of my friends with similar interests as me tend to discard the obi, since it becomes bothersome while reading. I have the habit of removing the obi while I am reading something, then add it back when finished reading the entire thing. Things like this can't really be done with digital media, especially subscriptions.
- paulpauper 2y ago"No one buys ________", except for those who do, which is still a lot of people. So tired of these overgeneralizations.