😍 2022-07-23 12:27:11 – Paris/France.
One. People are reading more and more. Of them. Readers are buying more and more books. Three. Young people read books the most. Four. Paper books continue to sell and coexist with digital reading, especially novels that are downloaded from the Internet. These four realities of the editorial panorama improve the balance sheets of the previous year, the first to measure the impact of the pandemic on our reading habits and have taken the temperature of the publishing industry, and they are a true revelation of the solid path that the drive to read is traveling.
The figures for the sector are bright spots on an optimistic horizon: we have the increase in the number of copies sold on paper, 174,10 million, 5,9% more than the previous year. Also the 13,49 million downloads of digital titles, 1,7% more than the figures for 2020. Sales of children's books and young people increased by 17,8% and adult fiction by 8,2%.
Whether this happens when the diffusion of television crushes records for hours watched with each new Netflix success (could he have stolen the last season of stranger things hours of reading and buying books for the youngest, will we be able to find out in next year's report?) opens almost unknowns of quantum physics. Where do we find the time to read? Picking up a book or watching a movie is the dilemma of our leisure time at home.
Feedback from the audiovisual and literary sectors is not new either: the cultural phenomenon is endless. Some platforms of diffusion relate television tastes to possible literary interests, and Filmin, for example, offers you a section where you can choose films inspired by books.
Same success this year Stranger things 4 led to increased sales of a series of books related to the series published in 2017, in which prequels are offered that feed on the interest generated by the television phenomenon. Even more. the master of horror Stephen King relaunch sales with its classics because publishers are relaunching their titles to attract new audiences seduced by the genre they have known through television.
This explains other phenomena that connect with the most recent audience, the youth, such as Dune, a new bestseller in 2021 and 2022, and with the first (wonderful) edition in Catalan, Duna, almost a collector's item , thanks to the hit movie.
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And even a bad movie can have its positive effect: persuasion, Netflix's controversial production with Dakota Johnson, was reviled by film critics and Jane Austen fans. But the misguided modernization of the literary classic has created such a infatuation from the announcement of the shooting which the robust Austenite book clubs and literary gatherings multiplied their activity, Austen provoked heated debates, polemics and above all, it has made such a noise on social networks that yes, its literature prevails, it continues to be republished, recommended, re-read, with new stimuli even if they must conclude that indeed, la persuasion Netflix hasn't understood Anne Elliot, perhaps the immortal Austen's most twilight heroine.
Twitter account of an Austenite activist, ElizzyB, who received a message from a friend “asking if in the book she is the rude and desperate kid from the movie, because if so, she wastes no time” . But there she was, with her rebuke to "modernizations that are loaded with story and character," and eventually enticed him to read the book. Are we going to read it again?
SOURCE: Reviews News
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