8 September 2014
Is the paperback format pulped? Last year, the value of sales in the format dipped below £1 billion for the first time in a decade and Adult Fiction's £263.7m paperback sales represented the lowest ever recorded by BookScan. In the digital era of publishing and bookselling, the future of the paperback format and how and when books are made available for consumption are among the most pertinent questions - as the entire industry adjusts its sales expectations and analyses how readers interact with the formats now available.