The e-books do you read more and better

January 27, 2012 admin News, 0

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Technological revolutions carry social changes of greater or lesser importance depending on the number of people who adopt the tools and innovative technologies. In the case of the arrival of the ebook readers, its effects are already starting to show statistically.

In the eighties and nineties, when the walkman and then portable CD readers were the only way to listen to music individually and without depending on a given specific location, many were surprised to see people immersed in their world walked the city while now, just take a look at any street or public transportation to find several people listening to songs, podcasts or audiobooks from their mp3 players. The way people consume music has changed with technology and the ability to store more songs and mix them at will. Something similar is happening to the world of books, the arrival of the ebook as a concept was in the nineties, but did not receive much attention because they needed to be in front of a computer monitor to read, which, then, was detrimental to the hearing and did not provide a good reading experience. Now, the arrival of the ebook readers with screens and special graphics, such as LCD screens or e-paper, to provide a comfortable and relaxed have read Change your rules.

Now we consume books on the screens of many of our mobile phones or, more comfortably in any of the many readers of ebooks on the market, including the famous Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader or Apple iPad. The difference presented by these devices compared to traditional book is the ability to carry a small library in device size, plus we avoid deforestation and allows us to access content in different ways, for example by sharing our annotations with other users notes or creating coherent systems more easily than we offer the notes in pencil on the edge of the page.

Of course these new devices have drawbacks, such as anti-copy systems derived from the ebooks that many publishers are determined to “protect” their works, which prevent something as natural as lend a book, or the initial cost of readers , which can create a gap based on purchasing power. But the benefits seem to outweigh the disadvantages because, according to a study conducted by the company’s Marketing and Research Resources Inc. for more than 1200 owners of ebook readers, more than half-54% – said they read the same as before and she plans to read more books like this in the future, while 40% say they read far more than before because it can keep the books anywhere without having to carry the lead weight and the possibility of carrying read in places which would have been more difficult, for example in the water through the covers.

Amazon said it sold 1.4 ebooks for every hardcover book in the last quarter, something that makes the market trend. The future of reading goes, like it or not, screen reader ebooks, which does not mean that paper books will disappear, just that there are still vinyl records for certain types of customers.

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