1. Barnes and Noble sees quarterly sales surge, losses fall to $41 million
2. The death of print has been greatly exaggerated
3. Out with the old, in with the new?
4. Amazon Kindle
5. The e-book tsunami
6. Predicting the death of print
7. E-book sales top paperback for first time
8. E-book reading jumps; print book reading declines
9. Print book sales rise hailed as a sign of a fight back in a digital world
10. On the future of the book. James Gleick
11. What will become of the paper book?
12. The smell of books
13. Behold: a future of print and digital reading
14. Want to know prints future? It will cost you...
A good introduction! No meat yet on the argument, but I look forward to your next post as someone who loves printed books and has yet to buy an e-reader (if at all).
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that you will be enlarging on your argument and extending your introduction. I'd like to know why you think print is staying: why does turning the pages of a book not compare to reading on an e-reader? What is it about the physical act that is so special to you?
ReplyDeleteThis is a good start, but I personally find all the stats a bit hard to read and maybe you could argue your point more by finding examples and reason of how holding a book is different and more enjoyable than e-readers. Maybe you could touch on what would happen if books did stop getting printed? What about all those books from 100s of years ago that have survived for future generations to look at and value as a part of our history.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Nicola. I realise that the statistics provided are a bit hard to understand. This is how they were presented in the survey they were originally from and I don’t want to risk them being misinterpreted by changing around the wording too much. However I will look into ensuring that they are a bit easier to read.
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ReplyDeletethought the video was too long so didn't bother to watch it. However you do point out some good points about what the guy said. I personally prefer reading an actual book rather than reading something online or an e-book. There's just something... comfortable? about reading an a book where you can flip pages and so forth. The statistics were a bit confusing to understand, other than that great emphasise on 'Print is here to Stay'.
Thanks :)
Thank you for pointing out that you didn't bother to watch the video because it was too long. I did realise that the video was almost an hour long but didn't think about the fact that viewers are unlikely to watch a video of such length. Because of this it probably does nothing to enhance my argument. I will look into finding maybe just a clip from this video to highlight the main points discussed in my blog.
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