Are ebooks destroying books

On February 16, , Borders applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and began liquidating of its stores in the United States. It liquidated retail outlets on July 22, with the last remaining stores closing their doors on September 18, Bernard Terrades is a bookseller in Paris and recently said Amazon is dominating in France, and is robbing the country of its culture.

People have lost the curiosity to go out and find books. The battle in Europe is as much cultural as it is financial. Last year the French government enacted a new law that prevents the free shipping of physical books online. Amazon countered by charging a simple penny for shipping, which is a token amount and still causes problems. It is a rising segment that is helping them make extra revenue due to the affordable nature of creating and distributing them.

Amazon is battling cultural currents globally, as demonstrated by their recent behaviorisms. It is always difficult to destroy books. They may not have as many lives as a cat but they certainly die hard.

It is sometimes difficult to find a scaffold for them. We cannot burn them or throw them easily. Why could not the author burn the unwanted books? The author could not burn his unwanted books because he had not kitchen range. He lived in a small rented room where this facility was not available. He could not burn them on the gas cooker because there were bundles of books. The e-book reading devices were meant to store technical or reference documents that would have become too heavy if printed as paper books for the intended users.

During this time, most of the projects related to e-books were undertaken at the behest of the government agencies. Sharing of documents became easier with the Internet services being introduced in the late s and e-book Readers became more reader-friendly. The cost of this device then was more than USD , which was too high for it to be viable and was discontinued within a couple of years.

These devices are literally putting the library or the bookstore in our hands, and all this without moving out of our chair. From the long-term perspective, one can also argue about the environmental benefits of adopting e-books, as no paper and no transportation is required for e-book publishing. Publishers have been using digital technologies for writing, proofreading, graphic designing, and printing for quite some time.

However, what has really changed in the last decade is the impact of these technologies on the way we communicate, promote, market, and especially the way that we read digital content.

The omnipresence of smartphones and the internet means that we have easy access to our preferred choice of digital content.