...Future of Printed Books in the Digital Age Name Institution Date of submission Once upon a time printed books were the undisputed medium of expressing literary culture, as well as source of information and knowledge. Books were a central part of the society acting as a vehicle for carrying and disseminating histories, ideas, stories, and pictures. However, over the centuries, the literary culture of reading and relying on printed books as the primary source of information has gradually changed. The digital age is populated with technology, which has revolutionized all aspects of lifestyle. Thompson (2005) notes that one of these aspects is the culture of reading printed material from books and other sources. In this digital age, information is readily available on the internet merely by a click of a button. This is not only convenient, but also consume less time as opposed to the earlier eras where one would take time and go to the library, search for a book, and finally read to get the required information. As a result, books are becoming less and less desirable as their future is overtaken by the digital sources of information. Today, e-books have replaced the printed version of books particularly with the invention and popularity of tablets and iPads that are perfect carriers of e-books. E-books are on the rise as the sales of printed books decrease, and soon they will completely replace the printed versions. For instance, in 2003, the sales of printed books decreased...
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...What is the future of printed books in the digital age? Marvin Kobek Test Essay Academia.research.com 3rd June 2014 For decades, printed books have been the undoubted medium in which people expressed their thoughts, stored information, transferred knowledge and codified laws. This method of communication dates back 500 years. Before the coming up of the digital age, printed books have been the only source of material available for citizens seeking to access any recorded information, students studying for exams or even for the religion searching for the scriptures[1]. Printed books were the only source of mass media. However, this dependency on printed books has changed. There has been an alteration in the reliance of printed books by the advent of the digital age. Applications such as kindles, internet, and Ipad affect the regularity of use of the printed books. Today, practically every phase of man’s activity is influenced or captured by automation. The variations and the far reaching effect have calls to enquire about the future of printed books in the digital age. The digital age has the birth of technologies that impact the way people organize things. A good example is in the in the music division. People are composing a sound without the usual pianos or guitars but over the means of a device called electronic mixer[2]. When it comes to press, there is the publication...
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...The implementation of books as digital downloads has given anyone the chance to read a book. Without having to leave the house, people can download a book in seconds. Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Google have all jumped on the opportunity to sell e-books. E-book sales have jumped in recent years. With the invention and relatively low price of e-readers, Kindle and Nook being most prominent, Forbes estimates nearly 30 million Kindle e-readers have been sold. They also estimate that Amazon makes nearly $500 million in e-book sales annually. (Brown, A. 2014). With annual sales growing and 1000’s of book downloads daily, e-readers have had a profound influence on adult reading habits. Research shows that adults read more books per year on e-readers than in print. In some cases doubling the amount of books read than the average printed book reader. In 2013, USA Today and Bookish conducted a poll to see how many people owned an e-reader or tablet. Based on their results, they found that 40 percent of adults own an e-reader or tablet. Of those, 46 percent of them were in the ages of 18 to 39. That same poll found that 60 percent of college graduates also have an e-reader. At most, 35 percent of that number say they read more often now that they have reading devices than they did before (Minzesheimer, B. 2013). The particular person this article focuses on is a man named, David Delk. Delk says he reads 40 books a year compared to just 20-25 before his e-reading days. He explains his...
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...Disbrow, received an award recently by the Ohio Board of Regents (Magan, 2010). This award was in recognition for her digitally making speaker notes, which reduced the cost of materials from $90 to $35. That enabled students the same supplementary material at a much cheaper price. The reality of the textbook market is that with the invention of tablets and net books, traditional textbooks will lose some market share to digital print. Many universities have already begun this transition. For as quickly as students accept technology trends such as social networking, studies show that students are slower to transition to digital textbooks. The Student Watch put together a study in 2010 which revealed seventy-four percent of students would rather use printed textbooks. As many as 60% of students were unaware that their textbooks were available to them digitally. Students use printed textbooks from the onset of primary education; this thought process stays with them throughout their scholastic career. In an effort to maximize profit and the low cost of digital print, book companies will be transitioning more to it in the future. McGraw-Hill publishes all of their textbooks in both print and digitally, and many companies are...
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...E-Books vs. Printed Books: The 21st Century Debate By Elana Goodwin on September 12, 2014 Tweet Pin It E-book sales have skyrocketed in recent years as personal digital reading devices have steadily risen in popularity since the Amazon Kindle was released in 2007. This trend has sparked a worldwide debate of the pros and cons of e-books vs. printed books and what technological advances in reading means for the publishing industry as a whole. Back in 2010, when Apple came out with the first generation of its tablet, the iPad, the Pew Research Center found that only 5 percent of Americans owned an e-reader and 4 percent owned a tablet. But as e-readers improved their design and debuted increasingly sleeker, more intuitive, larger memory models, e-reader ownership grew. Photo Credit: u-publish.com Today, those numbers have severely multiplied, with 32 percent of Americans owning an e-reader and 42 percent owning a tablet, those devices being two of the biggest ways e-books are consumed by readers. http://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/134689/E-Books-vs-Printed-Books-The-21st-Cent However, though e-reader and e-book sales numbers seem to be constantly growing, a report by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) showed that in 2013, hardcover book sales in the U.S. were actually up while overall U.S. e-book sales were actually down about 5 percent. The AAP found that hardcover book sales rose 11.5 percent to $778.6 million through August of 2013 while e-book sales were...
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...CRISOSTOMO, Jestine A. Age of Paperless Paper / Online newsroom When I was young, my mother taught me how to write on paper. Tracing letters to words and drawing of dog or a flower. When I was growing up, my teacher always want us to write essays, poems or even lectures on paper - back to back. Yeah, I had a tough time writing on paper but I do know that because of that experience, I learn how to write, to read, to compose and to draw or sketch. Paper is a thin sheet of a material made from fibers derived from wood or grass. A thin sheet that helped me molds the person that I am now and a thin sheet that gave me the knowledge that I have now. Through the years, paper is used as a medium to convey printed or written information such as books, magazines, newspaper, and etc. Today, the digitalization in the print industry leads to an assumption that the Age of paperless paper is coming. Yes, paperless, based on the pessimistic people. No more printed outputs, no more newspapers and magazines or even books that are held and read by human. Of course, electronic books (ebooks) are available now. You can have a book on your gadget for free or pay just a little amount rather than buying a real book. Online newspaper and magazines too are converging to online world. They already have applications that let you read the same newspaper using just your gadget with the help of the internet. Cool right? Life becomes easier with the advent of technology. But it gives a hard time to the print...
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...w ww.pwc.com Turning the Page The Future of eBooks Technology, Media & Telecommunications Foreword Today, it seems eBooks and eReaders provide more questions than answers for the book industry: • Will the industry face the same issues that music publishers did during its digital transformation several years ago – primarily digital piracy and a loss of revenue as customers discovered new methods of acquiring content and adopted new listening habits? Publishers, Internet bookstores, and companies that manufacture eReaders have high expectations for the digital future of the book industry. A new generation of eReaders may, at last, achieve the long-awaited breakthrough that lures consumers away from paper and ink. In the United States, Amazon has revolutionized the market by producing an eReader that is easy to use and making it easy for customers to purchase a wide variety of books at competitive prices. While some people herald the advent of digital reader technology as an opportunity to open new target markets and create customers, others mourn the end of traditional books and doubt the industry will be able to retain control over pricing and content. • Who will purchase eReaders? Will they be designed to appeal to a broad group of customers or only to those who have a high degree of comfort with technology? Will people who read once in a while want to buy an eReader, or will they only be purchased by the small group of...
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...classroom rather than traditional printed textbooks? Studies have shown technology such as tablets are more helpful than textbooks schools get each year. Harcourt (n.d.) used a "digital version of the Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in California's Riverside Unified School District." (para. 10) Students had a 20% higher test score using the digital version than the printed textbooks. Each year school's spend about $7 billion on out of date printed textbooks. By them switching to tablets, schools could save about $3 billion. So why do schools not want to make the change? Textbooks are usually seven to ten years out of date when schools buy them. Therefore, the students are not getting the most current information they need to learn. With tablets, students and teachers would be able to stay up to date with all and any information they need. Tablets are much lighter than print textbooks. They can hold hundreds of textbooks, save the environment by lowering the amount of printing, increase student interactivity, and creativity, and that digital textbooks are cheaper than print textbook. “…in 2006, the U.S. book industry consumed approximately 30 million trees and had a carbon footprint equivalent to 12.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or 8.85 pounds per book sold.” (Green Press Initiative and the Book Industry Study Group. 2008) Paper books can be recycled, though at this point not much data is available regarding the percentage of books that are recycled at the end of...
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...Digital Story Reading As a Tool for Vocabulary Acquisition among Preschool Children Maiya Bianca Aguila, Alwyn John Lim & Catherine Francia De La Salle University Manila August 2013 Vocabulary acquisition is an essential part of young children’s literacy development, particularly their reading skills. It has been seen that acquiring a normal vocabulary is prerequisite for reading comprehension (Becker, 1977; Chall & Conard, 1991: Chall et al., 1990). This means that for a child to become a successful reader by the time he enters elementary he must be able to acquire the vocabulary necessary for his age. However, unlike phonics and other literacy skills, building basic vocabulary requires continuing support and there must be ongoing effort to introduce and explain new vocabulary (Hassan, 2012). Although the usual approach of presenting students with list of words to be mastered has been proven effective, research tells us that a great deal of vocabulary acquisition can take place through reading (Cho &n Choi, 2008; Elley, 1989, 1991; Vivas, 1996; Mason & Krashen, 2004; Krashen, 2004; Wang & Lee, 2007). As early as infants, children are being exposed to printed storybooks where they encounter new words to enhance their vocabulary. Research shows that reading to babies and toddlers yields promising results. Children who were exposed to story reading at an early age demonstrate greater language comprehension and larger vocabularies (Jacobson...
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...What is the value of public libraries in the digital age? Libraries provide enjoyment to different kinds of individuals. For some, it’s the feeling of being alone and escaping into their own world. For others, it’s just feeling of a quiet environment with the pleasure of enjoying a great book. Now days, the perception of libraries has changed, it is no longer just a repository of books. Libraries provide more resources than just books, they allow for learning and social gatherings and they move along with time. Though libraries are still very much about loaning out books and providing information, with the digital age in full swing it is done in a different way. Times have changed and with that so have the library. With new technologies emerging, are libraries destined to fade into oblivion? Or will they been seen as more relevant than ever? When asked what comes to mind when you hear the term ‘library’, many respond ‘books’. I defiantly did. Sure, many books can be found ranging from fiction novels to non-fiction, children’s books, culture books, historic books, magazines and so forth but libraries really do provide more than just book. Today’s world has shifted from a printed word to on line. Many books are now being digitalised and accessed on line. The Taiga Forum Steering Committee made claims that before 2011 “All information discovery will begin at Google, including discovery of library resources” and that “There will be no more libraries as we know them.” Many question...
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...Phoenix, 2014) has developed a digital reading application that is simple to use, and necessary in today’s world of academics, business, and pleasure use. It is the intention of this business proposal to acquire the financing needed to begin launch of this new application and the following in-depth information will show that the numbers support Mr. Bury’s proposal. Market Analysis In the growing technological age and with the introduction of digital reading devices like the iPad® from Apple Inc. or the Kindle® from Amazon.com, the demand for digital reading formatted books has begun to surpass the demand for audio books. With the introduction of this technology, improvements and advances have led to devices that the hearing and visually impaired can also enjoy (National Library Service, 2009). The need for a physically printed book in the modern age is falling behind thanks in part to technology and the internet, and with eBook titles now taking up an estimated 30% of all book titles sold (Bercovici, 2014), it has become apparent that there is a marketplace for applications related to this field. While 30% may not seem like much, take into consideration that eBooks have been around less than a decade, whereas paperbacks have been in print for centuries. With this expanding market, the public is looking new improved applications, and Mr. Bury has developed a user-friendly application that has the ability to read copyrighted digital text. In an age where people can download...
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...creation of analog-to-digital converters, technology convergence, and the changes in the media industry and audiences. There have been advances in the way gatekeeping and content filters are handled. The rise in the technology of books has even been so great that there has been a decrease in the annual sales by 44 million books. With the ascending spiral of technology the world of media will be a great place for the future. Analog media has been used originally for audio recording for media that was analogous for the sound that it was creating. Although, recently Analog media has been used to refer to non-digitized media, such as film, audio, print media, etc. Since technology has advanced and become dependent on computers analog has been translated into digital media so that it is in computer and machine-readable form. It is put into binary digits so that computers may read and comprehend it. This process in which media is translated into computer-readable is called digitization. Communication of media has been transferring from the traditional analog media to the newer aged digital media. This is much more convenient in this new age because people have learned to depend on their computers to do work. When dealing with audio and video an analog-to-digital converter works at an extremely high rate. Digital media is a great advancement in media technology. Technological convergence is the coming together of computing, telecommunications, and media in digital environment. It can...
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... Oral communication had no way of reaching a mass audience so information and knowledge stayed within the population or community. But when the alphabet emerged, written material began to develop; therefore, the writing era arose. Oral traditions began to be documented and the inscribed word conquered spoken. The oral and written eras in communication, defined the future expansions of mass media. Succeeding the oral and written ages was the print era, which was a vast change in mass communication. First printing was costly and only the rich could manage to pay for books and papers. Then printing equipment improved, and the cost of printed supplies went down, so they became obtainable to more people. Books became the first mass-marketed invention in history (Campbell, Martin, & Fabos, 2012). When books began to reach a lot of people more rapidly and farther away, people began to write and spread new ideas that changed the culture. Books, pamphlets, as well as magazines helped spread knowledge and reinvigorated education. Literacy increased outside the wealthy and into the lower classes. After the printing age, there came the electronic period. The invention of the telegraph...
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...* technology age will lead Findings And Discussions Printing press has allowed information to be spread quickly and accurately. This was particularly useful for communication between scientists, and it also gave authors more prominence and boosted literacy rates by making the printed word ubiquitous. That’s why, even as the printing press gives way to new technologies, its impact on society can’t be ignored. Printing is not something one may think of often, but it does impact our lives everyday. From the morning newspaper to church on Sundays, printing is important to our society. Without printing we wouldnt have books, papers, magazines or many other information tools. To truly understand printing one must look at the machines, processes and technology that has shaped its history. Technology has impacted every industry, but perhaps has really improved the printing industry. The introduction of computers make setting up type and tone much easier. Laser printing and digital printing have sent the process to new heights, allowing printers to do more than ever. High definition abilities make todays printed material of the highest quality ever seen. With the combination of new advances in machinery, processes and technology the printing industry has grown and changed. It is an important part of daily life and with its evolution through history has become even better. As art is said to be a mirror of mood, so are the values of the time reflected in art of an era. ...
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...In today’s ever-accelerating world, we constantly find ourselves communicating with one another and sharing information in a manner that is almost instantaneous. Due precisely to the developed modes of communication we now have, we are given the ability to share media in a fashion that places an emphasis on the ethical issues concerning the copying and distribution of digital media. In the following paper, an in depth analysis regarding the ethical frameworks that play a part in the copying and distribution of digital media will be brought to light. Furthermore, to better exemplify this, three primary cases will be used to compare and contrast the ethical frameworks of the main topic. These cases derive from primary sources chosen specifically...
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