Comparison of Communication Modes between E-books and Paper Books —— Advantages and Disadvantages of Paper Books and E-books

Compared with traditional books, e-book is a fascinating information dissemination tool with brand-new features, which plays an increasingly important role in the Internet age. Specifically, the difference between e-books and paper books is mainly reflected in the following aspects.

Humanization of communication

From the humanization of communication, the advantages of paper books are mainly 1. The freedom of acceptance is easy to cause spiritual pleasure: compared with e-books, people can enjoy the spiritual pleasure brought by reading in a more free state of acceptance; 2. The carrier is independent and easy to read; 3. Direct sensibility gives people a sense of intimacy; 4. Paper reading is a kind of linear text reading, and the linear characteristics can make people get the training of rational thinking.

At present, e-books can not completely replace the humanized communication characteristics of paper books, but they also have their own humanized communication characteristics. First of all, with the help of network technology and information technology, e-books have changed the traditional one-way publishing and realized the interaction among publishers, readers and authors. Secondly, they generally have the advantages of portability, large storage capacity and convenient retrieval. These characteristics make some aspects of knowledge acquisition more targeted and humanized. In addition, the new communication carrier is easy to read. At present, a new discourse system has been formed on the Internet and mobile phones. Simple words, letters or symbols are used to convey content, pictures are used to replace words, and information is conveyed in an intuitive form, which makes people accept and understand faster and more labor-saving to some extent.

As far as the time and space range of transmission are concerned,

The basic form of human society is time and space, and the information that moves and changes in time and space constitutes a basic state of human existence-communication. Based on the needs of survival and development, human beings have been looking for ways and means to overcome spatial distance and speed up information dissemination. The basic purpose of communication is to spread information as clearly, accurately and quickly as possible. In the era of network communication, with the help of modern communication technology, people have realized their dream of crossing time and space. The characteristics of network communication are based on its TCP/IP protocol and various powerful functions.

The development of books embodies the integration trend of time function and space function. However, because paper books need a series of editing, publishing and printing processes, and are limited by carriers, there are still some time and space restrictions on publishing and distribution. Until today, the network communication technology has completely broken the limitation of time and space, and e-books based on network communication have realized instant communication.

The relationship between transmission and reception

Before books were printed, the communication activities carried by books were a one-way communication process. There is asymmetry of information between the disseminator and the receiver, and the inequality of communication power and right. The disseminator decides to spread the content, and the receiver is placed in the position of simply passively accepting the content in most cases.

In the process of e-book information dissemination, both the disseminator and the audience are in a prominent position in information dissemination. In the process of communication, the internal relationship of the structure has changed, and the interactive relationship of each link has been strengthened. The interactive relationship of e-books is that publishers can directly provide personalized book information to different readers according to their different requirements; Readers can give quick feedback and express their opinions on the information of books; According to their own needs, readers actively search the information of e-books on computers or reading devices and read them. The humanized interface, dialog box and prompt exchange between computer and reading equipment form man-machine interaction. Due to the interactive delivery of e-books, publishers and readers have more opportunities to communicate and communicate, and readers can participate more in the process of publishing and disseminating books, and take a more active position, thus realizing the potential equality of control rights to a certain extent.

Content and characteristics of communication

The recording, description and dissemination of paper books are flat. This plane carrier is limited by the unit area such as paper, and the content spread out can only be fragmented. Moreover, people have to take up a lot of space to store knowledge, build libraries and libraries, and connect their knowledge chain with the accumulation of books. The expression of this information is just a single text symbol. The content characteristics of e-books are hypertext, three-dimensional and multimedia.

1. The richness, hypertext and three-dimensional nature of information. E-book reading devices generally have huge storage space, and a small device is a "library" that can update content online at any time. For an e-book, its capacity is also unlimited. E-books also break the linear order of paper books, and provide readers with a dynamic three-dimensional information. They can contact all kinds of knowledge and information through hyperlinks, and use search engines to input keyword queries, so that they can immediately see the details of related items.

2. Multimedia information expression. Multimedia technology has transformed information transmission from a single form of words, sounds and images into a multimedia communication form. As a kind of multimedia communication, e-book information communication has all kinds of pictures, words, sounds, images and animations, giving readers all-round and multi-dimensional information and a three-dimensional sense of vision, hearing and reading, far exceeding the single way of pure text of paper books.

Carrier dependence of communication

Paper books are independent and easy to read and collect. Electronic media needs special auxiliary carrier equipment, which is far less independent, relaxed and convenient than paper books. Electronic media, as an auxiliary carrier, is also not conducive to people's collection.

Although e-books have the advantages of portability, large storage capacity and convenient retrieval with the help of network technology and information technology equipment, they also have the disadvantage that they can only be read through the display. Terminal reading equipment is a necessary condition to realize e-book reading. In the same reading time, the visual fatigue caused by display screen is often higher than that caused by paper.

(The author is the library of Jiangsu Normal University of Technology)