E-book

interested in buying actual books. Consumers are leaning towards buying e-Reader and e-Book that allows downloading any book at any time anywhere by a click of a button. Less Barnes and Noble college…

Ever bought a pair of shoes that fit perfectly in the store, but left your feet aching affter wearing them around for a day? It could be due to the time of day you bought your shoes. Shoe shopping can be frustrating, but the best time of day to shop for shoes late in the afternoon or evening. Sound crazy? It's not. This is because after walking around all day your feet will swell. Some feet only swell a little bit, while other's feet can swell a half shoe size larger! I know this is true all…

Achievement Standard Technology 91354: Children’s book research essay Fraser Mander There are many opinions about what makes a good book for children. A children’s book is a book with a mix of words and pictures. This is true from the Hairy Maclarey, written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd to Roald Dahl’s books as illustrated by Quentin Blake. Children’s books have to offer a sense of joy no matter how simple or complex it is. Books such as Curious George or Winnie the Pooh have that…

Electronic Books One of the main reasons that people tend to like electronic version of books is the convenience of it. The process of getting a printed book involves actually going somewhere or waiting days to receive it in the mail. As opposed to the method of buying electronic books, where you can instantly download the book. In 1997 amazon requested a patent on what shoppers today know as the “buy now with 1-click” button. This makes the process even faster by adding this button on their…

country. As of August 1, 2015, the company operates 647 retail stores all across the country. They stock over 1 million titles for immediate delivery and they claim to have more titles than any other bookstore. The birth of the Internet shook the retail book market causing a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s. Barnes & Noble stands as America's last remaining national bookstore chain, although it had progressively closed many of its retail…

the way to read book. Before, people who have a habit of reading book used to go to store to buy the hard copy book; however, today, it is more convenient to read eBook because it is faster to find out where to buy the book, they are cheaper and it is easy to carry with. In fact, when eBooks become popular, so to adapt to the change many publishers have produced eBooks in order to ass value chain for their customer. However, even though we can ignore the convenience that e-Books bring to our…

component of a book is generally referred to as nothing but a pretty picture. Efforts to realign the core manner of books fail drastically, however, several new features present themselves through the unearthing of electronic books(Streitfeld, 2013). As of January 2014, studies conclude that about 50% of Americans own a dedicated handheld device, either a tablet, or an e-reader for reading e-content(Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps, 2014). Under those circumstances, printed books could…

Books: Why I Still Read. I remember walking into my local mall growing up and begging my parents to take me to the bookstore after the toy store. Most children of today will never know the excitement of thumbing through a new paperback book on their way home. The popularity of E-book is becoming more and more popular with society. For hundreds of years, books were the main source of entertainment. Now today, the inventions of such things as the television and computer games, it seems like…

Basing on his personal experience, the author of this article addressed both the pros and cons of ereaders, and his feeling was a representative of people who faced the emergence of ereaders. First, he talked about his experience of purchasing his first ereader, a Kindle. Because there were too many kinds of ereaders in the market at that time, and new one never stopped coming out all the time, the author did not know which to buy after he got various advice from friends. When a new ereader came…

Students currently have much more convenient study approach since e-learning was introduced to school. Primary schools in some developed countries such as Britain and America tend to teach their students with electronic devices instead of printed books. However, I personally argue this trend is not suitable for pupils. In this essay, I will first list some drawbacks of eBooks and then give some reasons why printed books should be still dominated in primary school. First of all, eBooks hazard…