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computer screen? Can they concentrate better using e-books or paper books? E-books came to existence before World War II with an American Engineer Vannevar Bush, who imagined the “memex” as a way for people to store and read great amounts of available information, but printed books began 560 years ago; memex is a device in which someone stores all his/her books (Manley and Holley, "History of the Ebook: The Changing Face of Books"). Nowadays, both paper and e-books are essential, but everyone…

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…

This feature is perfect for readers with finicky taste or those who read very quickly, affording the ability to jump from one title to another without the bulk of multiple books. The book market is flush with e-books that can be used on any number of operating systems and devices. “E-books now make up around 30% of all book sales, and Amazon has a 65% share within that category, with Apple and Barnes & Noble accounting for most of the balance" (Bercovici 2014). In addition to this, many…

aforementioned, this is a Chinese site and hence caters the needs of people living in China. Auctions don't form a huge base of transactions held at taobao. Usually, the goods sold are the ones which have fixed prices. Type of E-commerce: Consumer to Consumer Consumer to consumer e-commerce conducts transaction through internet between two consumer, where one of them offers services or products and the other benefits from the services or buys the others products. At Taobao, the user finds the…

Technology is very important in human society and become inseparable with people’s life. There are still a huge number of people who begin to use technology every day and quickly increasing. Majority of people no matter in school or at work are using cellphone and laptop for wither class or work. The vitality of technology would give people different method of use and one of the most important function is communication. One of the most useful technology product “internet” is use to spread out…

Kindle, an e-book reader, and the Kindle Fire tablet. Today, Amazon expanded business in other countries. Becoming a global company brought challenges to Amazon. Situational analysis In 1995, Amazon started an online bookstore in the United State. The number of Internet user increased, and online payment became more prevalent. American became more familiar with online payment and online store. Amazon caught this opportunity to become a successful company. Amazon decided to increase the number…

Coffee and books seem to coexist in a symbiotic relationship in the twenty-first century. The local Barnes and Noble no doubt has a Starbucks inside, where you can enjoy a cup of coffee while reading a novel. Perhaps that is why the Espresso Book Machine has a homage to the delightful substance in its very name. More likely it’s due to the claim that this machine can print a paperback book “‘in less time than it takes to make and enjoy a caramel macchiato’”3. Although the validity of that…

The second thing to talk about is that e-learning makes the process of learning more flexible and faster and easier. E-learning helped the students who are working and have difficulties because then don’t have the time to pay attention to all the things said in the lecture so they can download the lecture and they can speed up on the parts they know and slow down and repeat the parts they didn’t understand. For example, students in the exams time they would skip over materials they found it not…

Questionnaires about Chinese e-book reading habits ware made by Sojump, the biggest Chinese online questionnaire service platform since 2006. The questionnaire web link was circulate to Wechat users from 2016 June 22 to July 1. Since Wechat is the most popular social media application in China (China Internet Network Information Center, 2015), the questionnaire can be circulate to a large number of people in a short time. According to the record on the website, 585 valid questionnaires were…

2.3 Industry Structure conditions • Number of competitors- Few (Moderate potential) Udemy has a few competitors some of which are Khan Academy, service skills.com, codecademy, Coursera, and Lynda.com etc. However though there a few competitors, these businesses also provide strong unique benefits to users. For example Khan Academy provides free online tutorials for students, and Lynda offers users to view all content at a monthly subscription fee, nonetheless the content and value propositions…