TOKYO, May 05 (News On Japan) –
A youngsters’s e book gross sales occasion held in a park in Tokyo’s Ueno space on May 4th drew 18,300 guests together with households, highlighting the resilience of the kids’s e book section whilst general print publishing continues to say no.
The occasion, now in its twenty fourth yr, featured a file 85 publishers together with Kodansha and Shogakukan, all looking for to seize new readers in a market that continues to indicate progress potential.
While the unfold of e-books and different components has led to a roughly 40% drop in print e book gross sales over the previous decade, gross sales of kids’s books have risen by about 10% over the identical interval.
Organizers reported first-day gross sales of 23.5 million yen, underscoring sturdy demand for bodily youngsters’s titles.
Visitors expressed enthusiasm for shopping and buying books in particular person, with one attendee noting the enchantment of selecting favourite titles instantly.
Industry contributors pointed to the distinctive strengths of kids’s books, significantly image books, which interact a number of senses by means of visuals, contact, and sound, typically learn aloud by dad and mom, making them extra memorable experiences in comparison with digital codecs.
Source: テレ東BIZ