I always keep an eye on Guitar Instructor and Hal Leonard for new tab book releases, and I have noticed that, over the last few years, the amount of new tab books being released has dwindled massively.
From around the time I started playing in the 90s until the 2010s I bought a lot of tab books, and there always seemed to be something new coming out all the time. These days it seems the tab book market has dried up. I know a lot of people don’t buy books and buy digital sheet music, but even the market for new digital sheet music seems to be sparse at the minute.
Is it simply due to the fact that guitar-heavy albums aren’t that popular any more? Are smaller publishers like Sheet Happens the future of publishing tabs?