`Ebooks are stupid`, says head of one of world`s biggest publishers
(The Guardian Books News)

The chief executive of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says the industry has had `one or two successes among a hundred failures´ and that ebooks have `no creativity´The head of one of the world´s largest book publishers has described the ebook as `a stupid product` that is unlikely to see further growth.Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of Hachette Livre, made the comment to the Indian news site Scroll.in in a wide-ranging interview about Hachette´s future in India, which also touched on digital publishing. According to Nourry, the `plateau, or rather slight decline`, that ebook sales have seen in the US and the UK in recent years is `not going to reverse`. Related: `Screen fatigue` sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print Continue reading...