eBooks or Books?

eBooks or Books?
Stella Megalou
Persuasive writing
1/08/11
Nowadays people's schedules are so busy and they have many things on their minds that they seek a more convenient way to access literature. For this reason, many prefer eBooks to tangible novels. These eBooks are accessible to anyone possessing internet. For example, the Amazon Kindle not only comes in a small tablet device, but is also downloadable (for free) to any computer. Therefore, the generation of tangible novels will unfortunately come to an conclusion.
Surveys have shown that one out of four people(25 %) use eBooks because of their "easy-to-use" feature. The process of downloading an eBook simply requires searching for the desired novel on the website's database (Barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc.) and clicking the "Buy" button located on the book's page. But why people want to press the ''Buy ''button? Why can’t they just go to a book store and buy it? The answer is because the process is much simpler; it is less time consuming and often it is much cheaper. Thus, eBooks have become increasingly widespread throughout the world.
According to Maye Henning, student and extensive reader, electronic books are better because one can purchase, download and begin to read within a matter minutes. This entire process can occur without physical activity. It requires neither making a trip to the bookstore nor waiting for the book to arrive via mail. She continues by saying, ’’No trees are required to manufacture pages for eBooks. They are completely environmentally friendly. In addition, eBooks provide links for easy access to more information and related websites.” Maye stated that this has helped a lot with her reading procedure.
This is not the same for everyone. Many people replied that eBooks are not only damaging for the eyes but are an obstacle for their concentration. Nicholas Carr, author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” discusses the Internet and it’s negative impact on society. In his article he explains, “I am not thinking the way I used to think. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages.” Moreover, Carr argues, “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” In contrast, it appears that for some people reading eBooks can be helpful and more convenient. Although for others, eBooks are just a problem to their lives and obstacles to their concentration.
Technology, which is becoming more innovative every day, will soon replace conventional means of communication and research. Books will be included .Of course there are always going to be people who do not agree with this. Because the kingdom of Books is so rich and powerful that an eBooks won’t be able to replace them.
In conclusion, because of technologies have already started to influence people and are now part of human beings .I believe that in the end books will be replaced by eBooks. The reason is, because, he first eBook that was released was in 2009.Now it is 2011 and 47% of American people have eBook .Sow can see how much this electronic book has grown in such a small period of time. What else should we expect? It is all up to us.