I must agree that the internet has now paved a way for readers to pick up materials from new authors. I think the real challenge for any author would be how he or she finds the perfect tribe of readers in this noisy online space. And the decline in the sales of e-book is probably a good sign that people are still preferring hardcopies.

Read this interesting article here https://24hryabookblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/how-the-book-internet-is-influencing-our-reading-book-blog-discussion