REISMAN SAYS HARD COPY SALES WILL SURVIVE EBOOK GROWTH IN CANADA
July 1st, 2010
BY EMMA JACKSON
THE FOUNDER and CEO of Canada's book retail giant Indigo Books & Music Inc Heather Reisman has told The Bookseller she firmly believes paper books will survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalised world of bookselling, despite predicting ebooks will take a whopping 20% of the book market in the future.
"I think for sure [the ebook industry] will take a certain share of paper, but I don't agree it will totally wipe away books," she said in an exclusive interview. "There's something about holding a book, owning a book, ...
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