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Originally Posted by richdlc
I would absolutely disagree, sales of physical books have never been better.
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Clearly, that is absolutely not true and a bit head in the sand.
There are far fewer military book shops, the military book sections in Waterstones etc are smaller, and Pen & Sword, for example, have diversified into other subjects such as general and local history, trains, buses, crime histories etc etc.
I know authors and have had experience myself in the last 10 years of once enthusiastic publishers refusing to publish books on WW2 subjects as they are 'too niche' and 'do not sell well enough'.
Each work published in ebook form and bought as such clearly is one less physical book not created/sold.
Paperback novels may be making a bit of a comeback but I would welcome a return of a widespread choice of WW2 subjects once again like there was 10-20 years ago.