Will E-books Replace Traditional Books?
By ilovesk
@ilovesk (44)
China
April 8, 2009 3:25am CST
The development of Information technology,especially the Internet,has made an increaseing number of various e-books accessible to people.Some people say that e-books will replace traditional books someday because they have such advantages as being easy to carry,transfer and search.
But as I see it,they will not and cannot take the place of traditional books.For one thing,some people don't like reading on a screen.It makes eyes water or the battery tends to run out on the edge of a cliff-hanger moment.For another,many books are unavailable in digital forms because of copyright.Many authors are unwilling to have their hard-accomplished books duplicated and disseminated for free.
Therefore,traditional books will continue to exist despite the rising popularity of e-books.A reader who falls in love with a book may still want to cwn it in the printed form,even if he hand read it in an electronic form.
What do you think?
2 responses
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
8 Apr 09
We had this discussion in a couple of my classes. One of which was my business law class. Due to copyright laws, it will be a long time coming where there will be strictly e-books available. Also, there are a lot of people (me included) that although e-books are nice it's nicer to have the good ole paper and print form of a book. My accounting book is on line and I really didn't need to buy the book, but I hate trying to read information off a computer screen...and it costs a lot more to print the thing out on the printer.
The main thing is copy righted material. People who have spent the time to write a book didn't do it for the fun of sitting and working at a computer for hours. These writers do expect compensation for their time. Think about the big names: Tom Clancey, James Michner, and others. I am sure they would be a bit more than a little upset at the fact that their newest book could be accessed and printed off the internet and they wouldn't receive a dime for the book.
@mugglecacr (138)
• Hong Kong
8 Apr 09
I still love to read traditional books rather than e-books. But I think more and more people are attached to e-books especially those downloaded by portable devices. Maybe someday we will find all our books selling in a memory card format and we will be reading it with only one single portable device.
