Is The Book Actually Dying?
As technology moves forward, we see more contents being digitized, such as newspapers, magazines, snail mail letters, music and most of all, books! There is a large number of e-books being published and sold online. Thus, the sales of e-books have risen to a point that it has surpassed the sales of tactile books. Although I disapprove of the digital hijacking of tactile books, but I have to agree that technology has to move forward and along with that, the way people read books.
“Books will die a slow death”, as said by Josef Benson, who wrote the first article: “The Material Body and the Language of the soul: What We Should and Should Not Fear About Digital Books”. He wrote that eventually books will die a digital death. The reason that tactile …show more content…
Digital books are going viral at a rapid pace. Her purpose for this because of Google’s plan to digitalize every book in any language on the planet in the world’s libraries.
She supports her argument by explaining that the younger generation of readers is getting used to the interactivity that the digital version of a book allows. College books are growing online at a rapid pace and at a much reduced cost, this whole generation is getting used to read online. Other than that, prices for online books are less than half those of hard cover copies. Mary gave a fact that in July of 2010, Amazon announced that it was selling more e-books than hardcovers, a total of 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books purchased.
She claims there’s a few setbacks of digitized books, she states that e-books have some issues of piracy. As e-books are published online, the internet makes it easy to copy and download its’ contents. Even the whole issue of copyright is under deliberation, online piracy
As technology moves forward, we see more contents being digitized, such as newspapers, magazines, snail mail letters, music and most of all, books! There is a large number of e-books being published and sold online. Thus, the sales of e-books have risen to a point that it has surpassed the sales of tactile books. Although I disapprove of the digital hijacking of tactile books, but I have to agree that technology has to move forward and along with that, the way people read books.
“Books will die a slow death”, as said by Josef Benson, who wrote the first article: “The Material Body and the Language of the soul: What We Should and Should Not Fear About Digital Books”. He wrote that eventually books will die a digital death. The reason that tactile …show more content…
Digital books are going viral at a rapid pace. Her purpose for this because of Google’s plan to digitalize every book in any language on the planet in the world’s libraries.
She supports her argument by explaining that the younger generation of readers is getting used to the interactivity that the digital version of a book allows. College books are growing online at a rapid pace and at a much reduced cost, this whole generation is getting used to read online. Other than that, prices for online books are less than half those of hard cover copies. Mary gave a fact that in July of 2010, Amazon announced that it was selling more e-books than hardcovers, a total of 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books purchased.
She claims there’s a few setbacks of digitized books, she states that e-books have some issues of piracy. As e-books are published online, the internet makes it easy to copy and download its’ contents. Even the whole issue of copyright is under deliberation, online piracy