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THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK - 11 views

www.buzzfeed.com/...the-future-is-never

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shared by monde3297 on 30 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • petrae77 on 30 Nov 14
     
    The year I graduated high school, the media was overrun with speculation about a new technology set to shake the foundation of the world. What was it? We weren't told, exactly. All we knew was that code name "IT" was so revolutionary that we would have to rebuild our cities from scratch.
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  • kristykim on 30 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing. I also heard that many universities are getting rid of their printed textbooks and only using e-texbook due to high prices that students have to pay for their printed textbooks. They may order in the printed textbook, but majority of schools are going digital.
  • siyuwang on 04 Dec 14
     
    Thank you for sharing this resource. This reminds me of a news article I read before, which is "Apple Announces E-Book Store". According to that news article, Apple announced the create of iBook store in Apple's event in Jan 27 2010, hoping to reshape the e-book industry with a vast selection of electronic books in iBook. Electronic books offered in iBook store are around the same price as Amazon's Kindle platform, but with much more functions and convenience. Taking the form of iPad, and with the support of five largest publishers in the world, iBook offers the electronic version of various books and ebbeds multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files into books, which is revolutionary. Therefore, the rapid development of technology has promoted the rapid changes and upgrading in book industry. From traditional physical books that we buy from retailers or borrow from libraries, to the online book sellers who sell both physical books and electronic books, to today, ebook stores in portable and mobile devices, how we read, when we read, where we read, and what we read have been transformed to a large extent.
  • haileyhjw on 05 Dec 14
     
    This is a good article. Sometimes, we think new technology will be a disrupted tech to kill and totally replace old industry.But actually, for old industry, the market will shrink a lot ,but won't totally disappear.
  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    What's going to happen with printed books?
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It depends on which side of the fence is one sitting on. The truth is the book is here to stay.
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It is interesting that whenever a new innovation is introduced, the current one is declared dead before its final time arrives. Books in whatever format are appealing to different audiences for various reasons. To think that the introduction of e-books was going to lead to a declaration of war on printed books is laughable. Books will be with us for as long as we are still in this world. Does format matter? only time will tell.
  • ukanjilal on 12 Dec 14
     
    Long back Lancaster wrote about paperless society but still we are heavily depending on paper only. Technology has fast evolved. First we talked about e-libraries then virtual libraries and now contemplating cloud based libraries. Many technologies have come and gone but paper is still ubiquitous.
shirley

Embracing the New Style of IT - 1 views

http://newstyleofit.ft.com/article/embracing-the-new-style-of-IT/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral "A New Style of IT is emerging because of the convergence of four mega trends of Cloud, Mob...

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