This thesis identifies two of the major media industries: Books and music and investigates the future of digital media and its implications on the printed media.…
Adaptations of literary works to the screen leave some audiences with a feeling of fulfillment while the work may leave others to criticize the attempt. Some prefer to “visualize” the characters while they read, and, rarely, do these “mental pictures” coincide with those of the film maker. Critical questions are raised about the faithfulness of the film to the text or about the director's interpretation of the work. In the specific example of James Joyce's “The Dead” readers may appreciate John Huston's adaptation for its faithfulness to the time period-lighting, costumes, music, diction-or they may criticize it for questionable additions and deletions.…
Recently, e-book came out and developed rapidly. In 2012, Amazon released news that it sold more e-books than paperback books in the global market in 2011. Interestingly, it was the first time more e-books than paperbacks were sold on Amazon. Some people have predicted that one day e-books will completely replace paperback books. They saw the rapid increase of e-books’ selling and potential. Undeniably, today’s society has a tendency to prefer e-books. But this preference does not mean that e-books will completely replace paperback books one day. Paperback books still are loved by many readers today. E-books will not completely replace paperback books.…
Lewin, T. (2009 August 8). In a digital future, textbooks are history. The New York Times.…
Nowadays, a growing number of people take it for granted that published books will be gone in the future and be replaced by electronic methods. However, contrary to this notion, I firmly believe that books will never disappear. The rationale behind this is that they are historically invaluable and indispensible for educational purposes…
Even with all these advantages, e-books still face a long road ahead until they can dominate the market. First, the basic appealing features of e-books, the large expansive library, the simplicity and cost of making e-books, also spotlight the distinguishing aspects of books. While an e-book does not cost much to produce, the amount of effort and resources put into publishing a "real" paper books sets them immediately in quality. And while an e-book does allow a reader to access an incredible anthology, they do not enjoy the same feeling of ownership that a purchaser of books has in a physical library. Books, for now, will remain a staple of everyday tradition, like jotting down a note rather than…
Therefore, human beings used to always look at books and former writings to learn about their ancestors or even novels in order to distract themselves. Later, in 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press that started the Golden Age of the Literature and saw the birth of the Publishing Industry. As we know it, for the past five centuries, physical books where the only way to read novels, to instruct ourselves and to pass on the future generations. But with the explosion of the web in the years 2000, the civilization has entered a new era for men, the digital era.…
=== Introduction 1971: Project Gutenberg is the first digital library 1990: The web boosts the internet 1993: The Online Books Page is a list of free ebooks 1994: Some publishers get bold and go digital 1995: Amazon.com is the first main online bookstore 1996: There are more and more texts online 1997: Multimedia convergence and employment 1998: Libraries take over the web 1999: Librarians get digital 2000: Information is available in many languages 2001: Copyright, copyleft and Creative Commons 2002: A web of knowledge 2003: eBooks are sold worldwide 2004: Authors are creative on the net 2005: Google gets interested in ebooks 2006: T owards a world public digital…
Reading is one of the oldest habits of human civilization. It has been the passion of the greatest personalities of all times. One of the first documentary sources for reading was manuscript, however, accessible only to the elite class of society. Later, the arrival of the Gutenberg printing press ended such discrimination by making the printed word available to all. The Gutenberg printing press brought drastic changes to the fundamentally oral society of the day. It was certainly a great jump in the humanity's onward march to the reading society. The emergence of the Internet has created an extraordinary change in the reading culture. It has made its existence, fully or partially, in the reading behavior of the people. Presently, reading is no longer confined to the print reading. The scope of reading sources has changed drastically in the Internet revolution to include web sites, web pages, e-books, e-journals, e-papers, e-mail, discussion boards, chat rooms, instant messaging, blogs, wikis, and other multimedia documents. Now the potential reader can access and browse the online information from the whole web while using his/her terminal at home.…
Technology has many great functional purposes, which aid in our daily lives. As more and more people start embracing these functions, books are slowly being replaced. A total of 2,267,233,742 people use the Internet alone that constitutes 32.7% of the world 's population. New technology is thought to be very empowering. We live in an information society where the leading role has been given to new technologies, especially those devoted to information. This is a very threatening prospect for books and newspapers. As we try to understand information, to separate it from judgement, to establish fact, we find ourselves in a free fall: we bring to information, to judgement, to 'fact ', our opinions and views which are in part created by the very manifestations of information, news and opinion that we consume. The Internet and other forms of the new media shape this very information. Also, more and more people are using…
E-books have been around for a few years and even though printed books are still very popular E-books are becoming more popular as well. To be able to read E-books people need to have a special device called the E-reader or a tablet. Printed books do not seem relevant anymore, but there are still a lot of people who hold on to or prefer the traditional books. Some people expected the arrival of the e-book to replace the use of printed books. It can be noted that this is not true. Although the E-book seems to have a lot of advantages, there are also disadvantages when it comes to E-books.…
HAYLES, N. Katherine. "Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature." _Culture Machine_. Vol 5. 2003. «http://svr91.edns1.com/~culturem/index.php/cm/article/viewArticle/245/241» First accessed 09/2004.…
Books are the primary and traditional tools used in finding information. It is one of the things that help our young minds be filled with needed knowledge. Books have earned a trusted spot in the world’s culture as legitimate sources of information, having been awarded by an entire network of people. However, humanity evolves fast that it is being replaced by technology; internet.…
Keywords User preference, Surveys, E-Books, Print books Paper In the contemporary society, it is generally believed that books play an indispensable role in the development of human society. Apart from the print books, there is another kind of books---electronic books, which poses a challenge to the position of paper quality books. However, there is no unanimous consensus on whether the print books should be substituted for the digital books yet. On the one hand, some people think the golden age of print books in gone, and we should pay more attention to the modern technological products. On the another hand, the view that print books will not be supplanted by electronic books was held by some individuals. As far as I am concerned, I am in favor of the latter's side.…
However, we cannot ignore a fact that the popularity of digital books can be a bit daunting for many readers who are used to going to the local book store, browsing the aisles and perhaps reading any chapter before purchasing. Or, there still are some senior readers who are reluctant to buy and learn to use an e-reader instead of holding a real book and making note wherever they want.…