How the book industry survived, with some help from Phosphorescence – Sydney Morning Herald

As a consequence, he said, the industry had emerged in good shape after the trials not only of last year but recent times. Sales jumped in 2020 by nearly 9 per cent to 67 million books compared to the previous year, with a value of $1.25 billion, up nearly 8 per cent on 2019.
We have faced the existential crisis of Angus & Robertson and Borders closing, the threat of Amazon, the question of whether ebooks would kill the book, but the industry has emerged from the pandemic strongly because people…

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