8 within the morning at the subway. A tender guy reads his hardcover guide, leaning his again in opposition to the carriage door, on easy methods to paintings. Subsequent to him, sitting, a lady “scrolls” at the pill, her personal digital guide.
At the one hand, the sound of the web page turning that adjustments. Then again, the sound of the fingernail rhythmically hitting the blue display screen. They each learn. On the other hand, the standard, tangible print.
And the trendy, immaterial, digital. A guide, at all times, however in a special shape.
It was once about fifteen years in the past, when digital and audio books entered the Greek marketplace for excellent.
It did not take lengthy for particular studying units to grow to be widespread. Digital bookstores have step by step multiplied and now one can choose from dozens of various get admission to packages associated with e-books and audio books.
You’ll, on this means, concentrate in your guide whilst riding.
You’ll put to your palms loose headphones and experience it when you do your morning jog. You obtain it in your pill, pc and cell phone and browse it at any time and second from any tool that fits you.
On the other hand, you’ll additionally impulsively shove it to your bag sooner than leaving for paintings and browse two chapters someplace on Kifisias Road or the (at all times packed) town middle, at the town bus.
It’s true that trendy Greeks are an increasing number of the usage of their digital units to stick knowledgeable and engage.
However do additionally they make a choice them to learn, striking apart the standard guide with paper and ink?
Is the “comfort” presented by means of generation in spite of everything in a position to win even part of the fanatical readers?
As thrilling as it will sound to hear any person else learn their guide of option to you when you workout, can this technique substitute the true revel in of studying?
Without a doubt, the ebook has additionally obtained its personal fanatical supporters.
Those that protect it as a result of the – virtually – 0 value of manufacturing, copy and distribution.
Certainly, an ebook is at all times readily to be had, has a minimum quantity of delivery and garage, is more straightforward to look and edit, whilst some even represent it as extra “ecological” because of the absence of a bodily medium.
On the similar time, print fanatics are fast to indicate the risk of corrupting studying tradition.
To lift a query of aesthetics, but additionally a ritual that begins with the seek for the best guide and ends with touching the duvet, smelling the ink, sorting it at the shelf, but additionally sharing it with a chum.
The overall image is that, regardless of the virtual age, Greeks nonetheless desire the published guide to the audio or digital one.
There’s a small proportion of the studying public that embraced the virtual transition, then again the overall information of Greek guide manufacturing for 2023 display that books are revealed in our nation basically of their “conventional” shape.
Because of this, published books constitute – an amazing – 93.1% of the full manufacturing of all sorts of books in Greece.
In particular, of the full of eleven,285 books of every kind revealed in the newest document of 2023, 10,506 have been revealed of their published shape, with audiobooks and ebooks following with simply 496 and 184 titles respectively.
In line with the reputable information of OSDEL (Group for the Collective Control of Works and Speech), on the degree of thematic classes, the literary books which might be revealed exceed all different classes with the proportion attaining 54.8% of the full publications.
The expansion within the class of self-help books (well being, relationships, non-public building) could also be constantly nice, particularly in an generation the place such subjects are widely analyzed in each and every nook of the Web.
With the numbers proving that the “conventional” guide nonetheless has its personal unswerving target market and is “conveniently” successful the fight in opposition to the virtual, it sort of feels that that is one thing that the Greeks wish to go directly to the following generations.
Evidence is the truth that one in two considers the guide to be the number 1 selection for a present for youngsters, particularly all through the vacation season.
And all this, at a time when the cost for many books nonetheless levels from 15 to 18-20 euros, relying at the version and the topic class. An quantity, in different phrases, which, whilst no longer unimaginable, is surely first rate for the common Greek employee.
A lot more in order the common value is transferring upwards: from the 15.63 euros it was once in 2019, it reached 17.10 euros in 2023.
It’s price noting, in spite of everything, that the published guide would possibly win the primary position within the hearts of the studying public, however it sort of feels that the similar readers – or no less than maximum of them – make a choice to make their orders digitally.
Certainly, if one compares the reputable figures of on-line bookstores with the full gross sales of annual books in on-line and bodily shops, one unearths that greater than 60% of copies at the moment are offered on-line and dropped at properties.
This reality proves that the Greek most likely short of to save lots of time and trip, has restricted his stroll to the community and even higher bookstall.
As an alternative, he orders the guide and needs it “with a click on” to his door – a development that has reinforced (as in lots of different industries) because the pandemic length.
However, there are exceptions and new developments on the similar time, which turn out that, if not anything else, the arena of guide readers is “looking out”.
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