Will e-books replace traditional books?

With the continuous improvement of network technology, people's lives will become more and more dependent on the Internet. As a result, it has been predicted that the future publishing industry will face huge changes and unprecedented challenges, we are familiar with the traditional paper books will be slowly eliminated, and a new form of books derived from the network eBook - e-books will be very popular.

No doubt, compared with traditional books, eBooks have their incomparable advantages: First, the price is low. As the network publishing is directly facing the reader, eliminating many of the intermediate links of traditional publishing, there is no printing, transportation, management and other costs, and therefore the selling price of e-books will be greatly reduced compared to traditional books; Second, to facilitate personalized management. Each reader can retrieve, copy, back up, statistical book information at any time in accordance with their personal needs; third, reading space. Readers do not have to be limited by time and space, and they can download or subscribe online at any time. The phenomenon of out-of-print will also disappear completely; fourth, saving resources. The popularity of e-books will make a large number of forest resources can be preserved, and truly realize the green environment; Fifth, the amount of information, and easy to carry ...... have so many advantages, as if e-books to replace the day of paper books is not far away. Some people assert that: 2030 publishing industry will become the world of e-books, when the market share of e-books will be more than 90%. Are books printed with paper and ink really going to enter the museum?

The author believes that e-books to completely replace the traditional book reference is too arbitrary. Although there is a lot of space for the development of e-books, but still subject to the limitations of various factors. Since the nineties of last century, China has entered a period of rapid development of the network, a variety of book sites, online bookstores are emerging, but the real profit-making book site can be said to be very rare. The reasons are manifold, copyright issues, technical problems, psychological problems of readers and so on are constrained by the development of e-books. One of the problems about the e-book audience to bear the brunt. As we all know, the necessary conditions for reading e-books are power supply, monitor, Internet and related reading software, and our country has a series of technical conditions of the population only accounted for a very small number. Even in big cities with high computer usage, people who are skillful in using various download tools and reading software do not account for the majority. Thus, based on the needs of most of today's general audience, traditional books will not exit the stage of history in a very short period of time. Secondly, the reading habits of readers is also an important factor. For thousands of years, people have been in the psychological and conceptual acceptance of paper books as a traditional reading medium, which can not be changed overnight. A cool love of reading people generally like to collect books, he will of course move all the favorite books home, placed in the bookshelf at any time and place to come out to read, circle, annotate, this kind of flipping through the love of books of physical and mental pleasure is the e-books can not be replaced. Again, because reading e-books to look at the computer monitor for a long time, in the long run, will cause eye pain and dryness, on our health is not good.

So it seems, it is difficult to say which one is better or worse than the traditional book. Thus, the author believes that the two forms of books will long **** exist. Smart readers should learn to take this long, make up for their shortcomings, and try to play the respective advantages of both, so that they can better serve the public. Liu Huixuan