Grade 7 English Comprehension & Language: Books

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Description

A comprehension and language in context workbook with a book theme (includes visual literacy).

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Collège
• Secondary education in France
• collège
• Collège
• Collège
• Post-primaire

Informations

• Publié par: Netsport
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Langue: English

Extrait

English Comprehension

Source A:

The World of Books

Grade 7

Physical Book Sales Rocket As Digital Dips Book shops are attracting more and more customers by offering cafes and running events. 16:00, UK, Sunday 24 July 2016

By Lucy Cotter, Arts and Entertainment Correspondent

Physical book sales have rocketed by four million this year, fighting back against the digital revolution. Predictions, a few years ago, that the printed book would die appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Last year saw the first rise in sales since 2007, while digital book sales dropped for the first time since 2011.

Betsy Tobin, who runs the independentbookshopInk@84in Highbury, London, offers her customers a personalised service. The bookshop offers coffee and alcohol and runs events and special author evenings. Diversifying is part of her success but she says her customers also like buying in person rather than online. They take pleasure from handling and owning books, she said.

"People arere-discoveringtheir infatuation with books and with bookshops," she said. "Publishers these days are putting enormous amounts of effort and creativity into book design and our customers really respond to that. "People want to see beautiful books and then want to touch and feel them."

Children's bookshave generally continued to sell well, as have cookery and colouring books. The best-selling author for teen fiction, Robert Muchamore, isn't particularly surprised by the figures. "Kids love the idea of having something physical," he said. "They spend so much time on computers, with their phones, andthere'sthe attraction of having the physical books —the other thing is ... they love to collect."

So far this year 85 million printedbooks have been purchased — 4.3 millionmore than last year.

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