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Will the e-book kill the crime novel?
Crime writers Harlan Coben, John Connolly and Laura Lippman join Front Rowβs Mark Lawson at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival to debate whether physical books will die out if digital reading devices keep growing in popularity. The murder rate in the United Kingdom may be at its lowest level for twenty-nine years, but digital downloads and book sales of crime novels show no sign of going down.
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