E-books popularity on the rise

The rise of e-book became popular due to flexibility, convenient and user friendly. An e-book is basically a gadget with relevant tools for easy search and able to store a large number of books into it. E-books are accessible with most gadgets such as computers, smart phones and other reading devices allowing these gadgets to be searched using keywords within the content of the book. This kind of e-book is popular among researches and students who have the ease of access to wanted information for their work purpose with their laptops or computers.

Amazon is an online website bookstore which sells a great number of e-books for the convenient of readers. Purchasing via online is available which it is inexpensive and user friendly to search for the wanted e-books without going through a number of book stores.

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However there are issues of using e-books such as creating discomfort to the reader’s eyes due to the flickering screens of the gadget and backlit hand-held devices (Pelle 2009). Besides that, the invention of Apple’s iPad, this encourages the users to download e-books via the application for the device which increases the number of pirated e-books to rise (Spence 2010). Therefore, the writers and publishers tend to suffer losses in their book sales.

E-books for children do not attract them as much as the adults even though the phenomenon is getting popular in this era. According to Asaff (2009), there was drawback on e-book marketing for children which it is lack of colour illustration, lift the flap, touch and feel of elements of a paper book. Unlike a paper book, it can be kept easily which it is convenient for children who stuff them roughly in a bag or left untouched on the table which it can be used again anytime. However, an e-book device needs to be maintained and protected from rough handling, drops and spills.
Thus, it is vital for to protect pirated e-books to avoid writers and publishers to suffer lost which result in less people would tend to write anymore. Paper books is more comfortable to read and easier to understand with illustration of coloured pictures for young children.

References:
Asaff, S 2009, Ebooks for Children, suite101.com,viewed 14 June 2010, http://mobiletechnology.suite101.com/article.cfm/ebooks_for_children.

Pelle, A 2009, The slow rise of e-books, Research Information, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=235.

Spence, N 2010, Report: iPad popularity blamed for rise in eBook piracy, Network World, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/051910-report-ipad-popularity-blamed-for.html.