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Book sales increase amid pandemic Posted : 2021-01-01 16:18 By Park Han-sol Amid the year-long pandemic and the everyday need for social distancing, demand for books has increased significantly across multiple platforms. According to Kyobo Book Centre, the largest bookstore chain in Korea, its sales from the period between Jan. 1 and Dec. 6 last year increased by 7.3 percent, compared to the previous year. A major online bookstore YES24 saw an even larger growth of 23 percent in its sales from January to November, compared to the year before. COVID-19 has brought changes to people's reading...

Manually flipping the pages of an e-book could soon be a thing of the past, what with a new feature coming to the fore where eye-tracking technology is used to turn a page. The feature has been introduced by the Millie’s Library, a South Korean e-book service provider that introduced the above feature and will save the user from having to manually flip the page. The feature relies on the front camera to track the reader’s eyes. This way, the software will know when the reader has finished reading the page. Thereafter, simply looking at the turn button will initiate the page-turn action. M...