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Will e-Books Replace Printed Books?
Joella Miller
e-book: an electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on electronic devices
E-books’ sales topped paperbacks and hardcovers for the first time in 2011
With $90.3 million in sales in February 2011, e-books were up 202% compared to the
same month a year earlier
“Although e-books are sometimes defined as an electronic version of a printed book, many e-books exist without any printed equivalent.”
Executives are predicting that traditional retailers will not be able to survive if they do not adapt to an e-book centric industry
% of Children who have read an e-book:
2010: 25% 2013: 46%
… Almost double in 3 years
“As long as he is reading that is what is important. If he prefers e-books that is fine with me. I think more kids will be reading e-books and he should be comfortable with both.” - Mother of 6 year-old boy
How will this impact libraries?
Public libraries have built eReading rooms that allow readers to browse within their digital library
e-books offer features printed books cannot
Readers have the ability to
• Increase/decrease font size
• Use a built-in dictionary
• Make notes
• Share excerpts easily on social media
17% read the same number of e-books as printed books
However, some people are still attached to printed books
46% of people still prefer exclusively reading printed books
"I think print and paper has a lasting value that people appreciate. Pixels are too temporary.”
While 16-24 year-olds are known to be technologically savvy early adopters, 62% prefer print books to e-books
Holding a physical book and flipping pages is the top-rated reason for people preferring printed books to digital books.
Printed books offer readers a different type of experience
e-books might be okay for novels but it won’t replace coffee table books or photo books
In the future sales of print books will continue to decline, while sales of e-books will continue to rise…
but e-books will never fully replace printed books…
because e-books are not a better format replacing a lesser one, they offer a completely different experience
Sources h#p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-‐book h#p://money.cnn.com/2011/04/15/technology/ebooks_beat_paperbacks/index.htm h#p://cnnmoneytech.tumblr.com/post/4044671614/the-‐e-‐book-‐tsunami h#p://mediaroom.scholasEc.com/kfrr h#p://www.mysanantonio.com/sacultura/conexion/arEcle/eReading-‐rooms-‐now-‐available-‐at-‐public-‐libraries-‐5418905.php h#p://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-‐paper-‐vs-‐kindle-‐paperwhite-‐can-‐e-‐books-‐ever-‐replace-‐the-‐proper-‐paper-‐ones-‐1959347 h#p://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/02/data-‐point-‐people-‐sEll-‐like-‐to-‐read-‐a-‐good-‐printed-‐book/ h#p://mashable.com/2013/01/16/e-‐books-‐vs-‐print/ h#p://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/25/young-‐adult-‐readers-‐prefer-‐printed-‐ebooks All photos taken from Flickr with CreaEve Commons licensing
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