From bedtime stories with the kids to indulging in a romance novel on a beach holiday, people still love a good book – even if tech has changed the format for some. In Germany, as the pages keep turning (whether that’s on a screen or in paper form), online book sales are on the rise.

There's no doubt that Amazon and e-readers have radically changed the way people buy and read books. But that's not to say that print or brick-and-mortar stores are dead. In 2015, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) counted 1,712 companies as core members, up from 1,664 in 2014.

With one new book added to Amazon every five minutes, the independent bookstores in the UK that haven’t already gone out of business are struggling to compete. By launching a personal, virtual bookshop, Penguin Random House is challenging the internet behemoth at its own game.

In the late 2000s the future looked bleak for publishing; giant high street booksellers were going under as experts predicted e-readers, e-books and self-publishing would cause the demise of big publishing houses. So what’s happened? How did the industry adapt to remain alive and well?