The UK Publishing Industry and Digital Technology: Effects of Emerging Trends and Innovations

Birkerts provides three effects that will occur as a result of moving away from the printed word to the electronic media. The first effect is the language erosion. He explains the reader that transition from books will lead to the “complexity and distinctiveness of verbal and written communication, which are deeply bound to transaction of print literacy, will gradually be replaced by a more telegraphic sort of plainspeak” (9). In the future our language will start to become more simple and dumb. Whereas, by reading books and printed materials people are able to dig more depth and understand and imagine the contents. But, soon this will start to disappear as people will no longer be able to understand the complex language of the literature and intelligence level of people will start to decrease. The second effect of electronic media is the flattening of historical perspectives. This means that due to the electronic media the history will start to recede because the “printed page itself is a link” and when this link is broken the past will gradually diminish (10). Birkerts explains the audience that the past is best represented in the books and libraries. Therefore, moving away from the printed word means moving away from the past and its history. The last effect is the waning of the private self. Birkerts worries that in the future people will forget how to live because of the electronic

In the article “Science Says You Should Still Keep Reading Print Books Over e-Books “by Penn Collins, is successful on providing a great detail on how online reading is making people take shortcuts. However, he lacks a data’s to support his arguments.

Enthusiasts and self-appointed experts assure us that this new digital literacy represents an advance for mankind; the book is evolving, progressing, improving, they argue, and every improvement demands an uneasy period of adjustment.

With a varied collection of data, Carr illustrates the effects on reading styles due to the use of the internet. He sites qualitative data such as the changes traditional media like newspapers have had to change to keep readership in the digital age. The New York Times began including abstracts or “shortcuts” to provide a quick peek at the news rather than have the reader scour the pages. This mirrors

Things that used to be printed out on paper such as newspapers and articles can all be found digitally. There is not hope for the things of the past like that. It is only a matter of time before there won’t be any paper books. They will all be digital. A much acclaimed critic writes, “One has only to look at

Declines in reading is growing larger and larger as time goes on. The author showed this by using a survey that was taken in 2002. It stated “declines have been most severe among younger adults… ages 18-24”. If the younger adults arent intrested in reading, then they won’t push that love onto their children one day. This then starts a trend of literature rates droping fast.

Electronic publications have not only increased access to text, they have even created new ways to view and interpret literature, not to mention new ways to write it (Landow 223). Some would argue that electronic publications leave little room for the ‘true author’—the Hemingway’s and Thoreau’s that write in secluded cabins, scratching novels on loose paper—but I disagree. Internet authors, while more common that those published in book form, may be in fact be held to a higher standard. The true author is not leaving the picture, as some fear, but is now expected to continuously paint it. "Authors are evolving into constant suppliers of new content; they are reporters and advisors as much as they are writers (Pang 349).

2-B&N and the book publishers are changing their business models to deal with the Internet and e-book technology by B&N developing its own e-readable devised called Nook. In order to meet demand and supply, they started to be actively in control of its supply chain by developing,

So many avid readers feel the same as I do and that is why print will never die. Golden Age, yes indeed. “Why Book Publishing Can Survive Digital Age.” No matter what school or career a writer or a future writer pursues, print and ebooks both will be a part of their lives. Just because everything is online does’t mean everyone reads it that way. The Digital Age is just like the Golden Age, a time for what we love lives on. Whether it be traditional publishing, which is how I would love being since that is what I knew as I became an avid reader as a child. The same goes for digital, I like that text, but it’s so detached and cold. I will read what I need to for school and work. I know that starting out that I will probably have to write ebooks. I prefer traditional, but then again I was an online reporter for three years. With that being said, I paid my dues, so my degree and dreamlike career should be next… right?! I see myself copyediting, publishing, writing. I just want to be a writer and write what no one asks about. My internal clock ticks and tock for suspense and imagination. I see myself working at a film institute while writing a script for my first feature

With all the new advancements with technology our reading behavior has no choice but to change with us. Author Nicholas Carr states, “the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind”. Author Ziming Liu says that we are spending “an increasing amount of time reading electronic documents” where a screen-based reading behavior is emerging. Our new generation is the digital media generation. You either need to keep up with it or be swept aside. Change will happen no matter what.

Now days with the rise of digital technology many physical items such as pen and paper are slowly being replaced by computers and smart phones. But is this really a good thing? I read books and of course so do many other people in this class and around the globe. But since the creation of ‘e-readers’ more and more people have been converting to the technology based side of reading. Although technology is slowly becoming more predominant in this era we should not rely on it to always entertain and keep us occupied.

E ink’s ultimate objective was to “kill paper” which means that the company was endeavoring to enter the display market as a disruptive technology with its radical innovation. The case study shows the company’s main goal was to disturb the old-fashioned market for books by presenting a groundbreaking method called “radio paper.”

New media has emerged from the print media. But its target audience is different from that of print media. Today, we have young readers getting attracted towards new media. This is because they feel that they really don’t need to waste their time reading when they

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.

world, which also boosted the usage of e-books in the world. However, there has been still a