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The boom in e-book publications has many readers flocking to download sites and loading up their blackberries with electronic novels. But many other readers are concerned about the future of paper book publishing. They enjoy the experience of turning the page, holding the book as they read the story within.
A recent television news report explored the possibilities to come. An inventor presented a prototype of a handheld e-book reader — an electronic novel — with formatting that mimmicks the look of a typical paperpack. Human genius forges ever onward into a technologically advanced future. Look around, we are IN the technologically advanced future. We're in Buck Roger's territory now.
Do we want to say goodbye to traditional technology like the printed book? Some will say no, and I am one of them, but the generations growing up within this future of new technology won't care in the least what happens to those lovely hardcover books or paperbacks.
Future generations will read all of their news online, as I do, and won't really care if the newspaper goes the way of the dinosaur. That wouldn't bother me much either, but printed books? I like them. I like turning the pages. I don't want my reading to be facilitated by the click of a button or the tap of a stylus.
The demise of the printed book may be a long way off, and it may never come, but technology is making an impact on the book industry, and it will continue.
Ebooks are readily available on Amazon.com and a bunch of other online stores. They're easy to publish too, which means that everyone can enjoy the thrill of being a "published author" no matter how poorly their book is written, or how bad the content. There's one drawback to easy self publishing, but we don't have to buy them.
I enjoy the experience of reading a book that is well designed and well packaged. Downloading the text and cover image to merely view in an electronic reader will dramatically reduce my enjoyment of the novel. Until I get used to the new medium that is. Change is not always welcome, but it is inevitable. And people adjust.
Stil, I hope publishers contine to produce hardcover and paperback books for those of us who will always prefer them. I'd hate to be left out in the cold, or forced to embrace a less romantic technology.
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