Is there a day when paper books will die out?

The development of the Internet has put a lot of traditional things on the road to Internetization, including a variety of e-books in a big way. In the subway bus, you can see a large number of people holding a cell phone to read e-books. Traditional bookstores go to fewer and fewer people. The rise of online education has caused some textbooks to go electronic. The benefits of e-books are self-evident, you can watch them anytime and anywhere, they are light to carry and not affected by the quantity, you can buy them when you want and they are also cheap. Therefore, there are more and more users of e-books, and the use of the scene is more and more extensive.

However, in this time when all walks of life have been changed by the Internet, the field of reading has not changed much, and the main way we read is still paper books. Compared with e-books, many people who love to read books will support the paper book, because the paper book reading experience is far more than e-books, more conducive to careful reading, learning, turning the book, smelling the ink, that is called reading, e-books, which is called reading ah.

In the future, with the development of the Internet, the future of the book will become what model, the future of paper books will disappear? Under this issue, I first put forward three questions:

1, the development of the Internet on the book now brings how much change?

2, the Internet will replace the existing paper books in the future in what aspects and under what scenes?

3. Do paper books have advantages that are hard to replace with e-books, and will the advantages remain?

I think these three issues are the key to the combination of the Internet and the book, to solve these three problems, then you can roughly analyze the core issue: whether the paper book has disappeared that day?

First of all, let's talk about what a book is. Distant ancient times, there are so many people, want to express their thoughts, or certain knowledge, history, so these contents will be summarized, with the most primitive pen and paper to write out, formed the most primitive book. As these books began to be transmitted, there were more readers. Later, books had a way of being mass-produced and were widely used in courts, schools, and other places, and more people had their own books. From the time of its formation to the present day, the book has been located as a form of recording words in a book. The book from the time of its creation, is as a carrier of specific content in the form of words, which is the essence of the book.

Nowadays, the basic form of the book content and the ancient times did not change much, is still just a record of the carrier of the text, for the majority of readers to read and learn. Today, the proliferation of media such as readings and videos, but the power of the written word has not been weakened. The history of the book is very informative in the field of reading.

With books out of the way, let's talk about the Internet. Nowadays the Internet has long been combined with many industries, through a variety of advantages to change the form of many traditional carriers, such as music, film and television, entertainment, news media and other areas similar to the book. Now we listen to songs, basically on the Internet, music from the carrier, to the mode of creation, to the distribution method are Internetized. We read news through major apps, newspapers are now the exclusive species of the elderly, and self media has also impacted traditional media to a large extent. There is no need to mention the characteristics of the Internet and the benefits it brings. We can see that the Internet has revolutionized the traditional model in various fields in three aspects: the carrier itself, the form of content and the mode of distribution.

First of all, to answer the first question. As in other fields, the Internet's transformation of the book is mainly in the e-book carrier, the electronic content of the book and the model of online literature. E-book carrier is divided into two categories, cell phones, computers themselves, as well as specialized e-book reader such as kindle, no longer limited to paper books. In terms of content, some online reading products on the market at present have a lot of books in electronic form, which are used for us to read books on various APPs, and at the same time, there are a whole lot of pirated content such as various TXT files. In terms of mode, online literature is considered to be a kind of literary distribution mode that grows out of the Internet, similar to the publishing house on the Internet, utilizing Internet means to open up the process from literary creation to distribution.

However, comparing the music media and other fields, we will find that the book is one of the fields least affected by the Internet. Despite the changes written above are not small, the main way we read is still paper books, the Internet basically did not bring much change to the reality of reading. Nowadays, many people are reading books on their cell phones, but we can see that there are still more people reading with a paper book, offline and online bookstores are still very popular, and more places such as schools only recognize paper books. Many e-books simply put the content of the book online or on an electronic device, without much change to the content itself, and the number of books available online can be said to be far smaller than those in bookstores. Although Internet literature has been around for a long time, it is considered more of a literary genre, and its model from creation to distribution seems to work only for the "genre" of Internet literature. This is the answer to the first question, the Internet in the carrier, content, distribution model of the three aspects of the book has a certain combination, but did not bring fundamental and transformative changes to the book.

Obviously there is a reason for this. The book and movie music is not the same, reading the book related scenes are very many, the user of the process of reading a variety of needs. At the same time, there are some other areas and the combination of books is very close, such as education. Therefore, the large-scale Internetization of books is a very complex and slow process, and must be slowly changed with the Internetization of related fields. At the same time, paper books are bound to have some very good places, can maintain their own advantages in the impact of the Internet, at least now it seems that paper books in some aspects is due to e-books, such as user experience.

There are numerous scenarios and related fields of reading books, which are categorized here according to the scenarios of the book and the needs of the user, and try to analyze the second question, which fields of the book the Internet can make changes.

There are many kinds of user needs for reading books. In the subway, the nest with a cell phone to read novels, is a recreational shallow reading needs; idle down once again drink coffee while holding a story or bestseller, is a leisure shallow reading needs; spend 1 day from morning to night uninterrupted reading of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign masterpieces, read a number of times to remember the reading notes, is the taste of the deep reading needs; read the kind of 21 days to become proficient in the XXX, access to the toolkit, is a simple learning The demand for reading; in the classroom to prepare for the college entrance examination and graduate school, is the demand for education. From the perspective of the Internet, how to optimize these needs is the combination of the Internet and books.

The current e-books have been more, e-books is the biggest change in the content of the book in the form of digital storage, the benefits of this point is undoubtedly, digital content to facilitate the flow of communication, dissemination, more efficient, the future of the book distribution, publicity, and other means of the Internet will inevitably. At the same time, the digital form of the content to facilitate access, retrieval, citation and other further needs, which is necessary for academia and various industries and professional fields in doing research. In addition, digitized e-books do not need to carry, the storage capacity is very large, for publishers, publishing, dissemination of an e-book costs much less than paper books. Therefore, in the future, the popularity of e-books is an inevitable trend.

The Internet can better meet the demand for shallow reading , many products on the Internet itself is suitable for shallow reading, such as the circle of friends in the form of this kind of brush list, and with a cell phone can make the fragmented time of shallow reading without the limitations of the medium. When we read a novel in the subway, take a cell phone quickly brush is certainly better than holding a book slowly turn. The interaction and experience of reading itself is less important when reading shallowly. The Internet can also better meet the needs of simple learning, obviously the book exists online than on the bookshelf to get easy, when we need to consult the tools, read a professional book, in the online search is certainly more convenient than the manual flip. And simple learning is also basically a look at the past, talking about is fast.

An important purpose of reading is to learn and educate, and the Internet is equally capable of meeting the needs of education. In this area, the form of combination of books and the Internet depends largely on the development of online education. Online education encompasses many aspects, not just reading, and the model of online education is evolving today. Within the classroom, students usually read to accomplish knowledge, underline records, and do problems. Correspondingly, the presentation of knowledge, the efficiency of learning, and the human-book interaction of the writing process are several aspects that are decisive for reading in the field of education, as well as in the combination of the Internet and education. Here do not delve into the specific mode of online education, but it is certain that online education will have richer content and ways, the text is no longer the only important content, through the Internet to record the learning content, do the analysis of the problem will be more efficient. Therefore In the field of education, the Internet is can be very good and change the way of reading and learning .

The Internet has a lot of social, community-based platforms, so the book on the Internet can develop more outreach, simple as many reading applications have discussions, ratings, etc., to share this kind of social operation of the circle of friends, in addition to a variety of community-based products combined with the book, this is not a detailed description.

We can see above that the Internet has changed the book, is multifaceted and transformative. However, the current paper book still exists, reading some of the needs of the current paper book is clearly better to meet. This is the third question, whether paper books have the advantage of e-books are difficult to replace, the advantage will remain?

In deep reading, long time leisure reading, paper books are more common and better, because of the user experience that people have been accustomed to. Many fans of paper books support the main reason for paper books is the experience of reading, turning the book, smelling the ink, that is called reading, in order to let the user feel leisure. E-book with a cell phone sliding, which is called reading ah, even if the reader, it is difficult to fully achieve the feeling of paper book flip book. The interaction of paper is the most primitive, the most direct, black and white text and the process of turning the book itself does not bring any extra interaction, so in the leisure reading, careful reading of such a high experience requirements of the scene, the benefits of the paper book is revealed.

Writing on the book is a further interaction. Writing on the book scene, including the reading process of the line, book notes, as well as to do this kind of simple writing. Obviously so far writing is a difficult Internet action, electronic devices, typing, marking and writing is a completely different way to write alone writing action can be replaced by typing, but while reading while taking notes in such a scenario, the interaction of the most direct writing will be difficult to replace. The interaction of writing is more direct and primitive than turning the pages of a book, and in the demand for deep reading as well as learning reading, the user will definitely write at the same time. Therefore, the interaction between people and books is the advantage of paper books over e-books, which is hard to replace.

The natural reading experience of paper books is rooted in people's habits. When a person starts reading and learning with a paper book from a young age, the habit of interacting with paper books is formed by default. In the future, e-books will be prevalent, and people will start to hold readers or even read with their cell phones, so the e-book experience will be commonplace, and even though paper books are simpler and more natural, people will be accustomed to a slightly more complex experience, and it will be difficult to rely on this natural experience. So I think the reading experience is an advantage that is hard to keep. Although this is an advantage, but definitely not a decisive factor in the change of paper books, as e-books slowly become more prevalent, education and other areas of extensive Internet, the advantages of paper books will slowly not be felt.

In addition to the natural experience, throughout the history of the book, there is an important role is the collection, the collection of classic works, literature. Collecting is about preserving that original, out-of-print or even autographed work. The Internet is a rapidly changing field, and the Internet itself has very little concept of collecting; an e-book is likely to have its content taken off the shelves one day or even have its website go out of business. For those ancient writings that can not be found on the Internet, the content can only be permanently preserved by means of paper book collection, and for many future published works, paper books are the best means of collection. However, the premise of the collection is in the future after the electronic publishing, publishers can still go to publish the higher cost of paper books, obviously publishers will not be scaled up for the collection to come and issue paper books. The collection is a very niche area, the collection of books is more some libraries and other institutions do, in the private daily hard to see, so the collection is also a very difficult to keep the advantage of staying.

Will paper books die out one day? I think that paper books do not see the complete demise, but people's daily reading and learning, it is likely that they will no longer see paper books. The development of e-books is a necessity of the times, and the advantages of paper books will be weakened with the impact of the development of e-books. Perhaps the future of paper books, just exist with individual collectors and libraries, perhaps the future of paper books only some of the classic books of the past, the new release of the book will only exist in electronic devices. For the fans who love to hold the paper book reading, this may not be a satisfactory development prospects.