Sure, you are reading this text on a digital device. But printed matter just doesn’t want and doesn’t want to disappear. On the contrary: Sweden is again using books instead of tablets in primary schools. Ten percent more books were sold in the USA in 2023 than before the pandemic – a total of 770 million books. And in Germany, almost nine billion euros were sold with books in 2021, not counting school and textbooks.
Dry numbers on a sometimes dry topic, from which starIllustrator Dorthe Landschulz has created a cartoon book with juicy drawings on the subject of books and reading: “Reading educates” is the start of the new series “Infinite Fun with Cartoons” ( Schaltzeit Verlag, 96 pages, 15 euros). In the photo series we present a few highlights.