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Dec 07, 2014 07:42AM

148834 When ebooks first became widely available there were a lot of fears that they would lead to the death of print books.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec...
However, this fear seems to be subsiding.
This article suggests that print books have outsold ebooks for the first part of this year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10...
and in America at least the move towards ebooks seems to be slowing:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142...
What are your thoughts? Does reading ebooks mean you no longer read or buy print books? Do you think ebooks were just a fad or are you a complete convert?
Dec 07, 2014 07:34AM

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Here are the most popular fiction authors borrowed from the Hive in November 2014


1 Daisy Meadows


2 James Patterson


3 Michael Morpurgo


4 Adam Blade


5 Jacqueline Wilson


6 Enid Blyton


7 Julia Donaldson


8 Stephen Cole


9 Giles Andreae


10 Ian McEwan


148834 Lee Child is our most borrowed ebook author and regularly appears in Worcestershire's top fiction author lists.
http://www.whoelsewriteslike.com
Who Else Writes Like recommends similar authors such as Simon Conway, Matt Hilton and Ava McCarthy. Do you think they measure up to Lee Child? Does anyone, if so tell us who?