Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided ...

Unit sales of print books fell 4.1% in the first nine months of 2023, compared to the same period in 2022, at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. A weak third quarter, in which sales dropped 6.7% ...

Although many readers believe in the notion of a decline in the publishing industry, it is surprisingly still going strong. Hardcore bookworms still prefer physical books, and they are expected to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serenity Gibbons is a business consultant who covers entrepreneurs. This article is more than 5 years old. Has digital content ...

For years, experts predicted the death of physical books. E-readers were supposed to replace shelves, and bookstores were meant to disappear like relics of a bygone era. Yet here we are in 2025, and ...

You must have noticed blank pages in both paperback and hardcover books. But have wondered what is the purpose of these blank pages? On top of that, why don’t ebooks have blank pages like that? Well, ...

The question about ebooks is not if they will pass print, but when. The short answer is … not yet, but we’ll have a much better idea in January. Buzz around the young format has been building since ...

In the first half of 2020, unit sales of print books surprised many in the industry by posting a 2.9% increase over the same period in 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan, overcoming a slump ...