I think so. It's so much convenient and space saving. Imagine having a library of books in the palm of your hand.
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ebooks will soon replace traditional books?
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I don't think so. As a book lover, I still love leafing through books, and going to the john with it... it's not something you can do with your e-book reader.
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I agree. I just love turning page by page by page. Make dog ears to bookmark the page am reading on.
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I think you guys might be confusing things. I think e-books would be great for professionals who read on their way to work, or while taking a break, but for those who read leisurely, they'd appreciate physical books more.
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Mahatma_Gandhi said:
I think so. It's so much convenient and space saving. Imagine having a library of books in the palm of your hand.I like the thought of having all my books in my pocket. And yeah, it could happen, but I personally think that it will not REPLACE traditional books, only augment it.
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Quiet said:
I agree. I just love turning page by page by page. Make dog ears to bookmark the page am reading on.I'm a book lover, and I agree with you guys, nothing can give you that same feeling when you're under your favorite tree reading a paperback, and you bookmark it, you flip it and have somebody read it with you. It's just not the same holding an electronic device.
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i think ebooks have another advantage: price.
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Hmmn, if you want to know about it, Amazon has said that e-book sales were not affecting book sales negatively.
They said that people were buying Kindle books not in lieu of physical books, but in addition to it. Which means that they've just tapped another market with Kindle.
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OutofthisWorld said:
I think you guys might be confusing things. I think e-books would be great for professionals who read on their way to work, or while taking a break, but for those who read leisurely, they'd appreciate physical books more.I agree that there are two different markets for paper and e-paper. I think we all should stop thinking that one will trump the other, that e-paper would replace paper, or that paper will stay and e-paper would just be a fad... it's nothing like that. Paper and e-paper compliment each other.
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While I love epaper, there is just some sense of satisfaction of having all these books on your shelves!
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I hear a lot of people stating that they'll stick to paper because they love the way it feels. I however do predict a strong decline of paper in favour of epaper, for following reasons:
- Price. As paper sales drop, printing will become more expensive, while increased consumption and lower production cost will make epaper cheaper. In the end, it'll simply be cheaper to buy epaper.
- User friendlyness. Epaper is only a few years old. Remember the advances electronics like pc's and mobile phones are making in terms of consumer ease. Battery life, touch screens, speed, memory... If in 5 (?) years time a fast, colour capable piece of epaper costs 100 euro, it'll be the new iPod.
- Ease. For school and work, you'll be able to carry huge amounts of paper on an easy to access, user friendly item. You'll be able to download your books from home or anywere you get wireless, rather than running to the library each time, hoping someone else didn't lend the same copy.
- Freedom of information. You'll always have to pay for printed texts, unless you want to risk stealing from the store. On the internet, information is really hard to protect if used by a large public (think about how movies and music get digitalized the moment they get released, something you also see with every latest Harry Potter edition), especially since written text is extremely small in digital size and easy to copy.
So rather than going to the book store and paying a healthy price, a lot of people will simply download an illegal copy, which will lower printed book sales, but boost epaper sales.- Seller interest. It'll be interesting for publishing houses to just sell books in a digital form, as they can cut prices from printing. You'll even have publishing houses who'll exist purely in digital form, because of the ease. This'll be a disaster for printers around the world, but than so was the dvd to vcr companies. And as the offer is changed, so is the public's demand (the way it happend with digital tv in my country: it was worse, but there was no alternative).
- Generation differences. The next generations will grow up with epaper, the way the current one grew up with pc's. Older generations will refuse to use it at first, until they see the benefits (my grandmother still doesn't use pc or mobile, my mother couldn't live without them).
In conclusion, I'd expect over 90% of all printed releases to be replaced by ebooks by 2018. But this will also have to do with the next stage in pc integration, making the computer a more integral part of consumer's lives (written text being the last digital media barrier).
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Great points Sanem. I have to agree with you.
What is you background? You seem knowledgeable on the subject matter.
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