The Advantages of E-Books

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Introduction

Nowadays, technology advancement creates so many things that we never thought. One of the magnificent human made is electronic book which known as e-book. This technology seems to be against their tradition way of reading in human history. E-book according to A new English Dictionary on Historical Principle (1989) is an electronic version of printed book which only can be read and handle by personal computer or a device which is designed from the purpose. While searchmobilecomputing.com (2000, November 8) defines that e-book is a tradition printed book but in electronic version that can only be read by e-reader. Apart from e-reader such as iLiad, computer and some mobile phones can also be used to read the e-book.E-book can be downloaded easily on the internet. Usually, it takes five minutes or less.

Positive impacts of e-book

According to Sasson (2005), there are many positive impacts of e-book. One of them is environmentally friendly. Compare to printed books which consume a lot of paper pulp which used up many woods, e-books do not required any papers which could save more trees and as well keep the environment to continue green. Furthermore, e-books can also be printed too. For those people who prefer to use traditional way to read books, they can easily print them with home printer or simply to go printing station nearby.

E-books also give benefits to publishers as well. Due to rapid advancement of communication technology nowadays, they can easily distribute through the internet.(Sasson, 2005) We also can get the books easily same as they were distributed. Thus, you do not need to waste up you time by driving your vehicle or searching for buses or taxis only to look up for books. It is very convenient and ...

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...eed to argue anymore if your partner will get annoy when you are reading in the bed. (Johnson, 2005)

Conclusion

Many articles approved that e-book give a lot benefits to our daily life. It helps us to improve our lifestyle. Before the creation of e-book, you may have difficulties to fill your time by reading especially when you are in inappropriate place such as crowded bus. Now, your problem is solved. Some people do not like this change of reading style. They think it will cause a problem that never have been arouse before. For example, e-book will put a lot of people out of work due to the closing of bookstore. (Wharris, 2010) Yet, we can figure out something to solve this problem rather than not facing it all. We should implement this change in all sectors especially in education. Perhaps, we should change the traditional printed textbooks to e-book textbook.

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