Everybody is presenting the arrival of e-books on the market as a new revolution. A technological revolution for culture which will reinvent our reading habits...It’s a fact and we can’t give up to these new cultural practices. But, to my mind, the problem comes from the reading aid itself. In fact, the question is the following: why people would buy an expensive machine just to read books while they could do it with their mobile phone ?
I-phone, and smart phones in general, are already offering this kind of services and a lot of people have used it for so many time. Nowadays people are used to using multimedias stuff, so why should they go back to “monomedias” ? That is the reason why e-books have no future.
Actually, there is a website which proposes a new kind of literature : www.smartnovel.com. Here you can buy some “roman-feuilletons” (serial novels for english speakers) especially designed for mobile phones. Some stories are written by famous authors and each of us are fascinating and well-writting.
3 comments:
The time will come, you'll see. E-books are designed for books, not Iphones. They use a special ink and a special screen so that people could read hours without having any eye troubles.
The battery. E-books are made for books, and only for books, that's why their battery last longer, you can read for days without recharging it. Iphones, man, you got to plug them all the times.
I see why you are reluctant, and you made a good point with your 'monomedia' concept, but some e-books have the 3G wireless, maybe they'll serve another purpose in a couple of years...
I agree with JEB. And I would even say that E-books have no future for real literary person. If you enjoy books and literature you cannot deny the fact that a part of the pleasure in reading comes from the book itself. The smell, the touch, all these elements contributes to the reading. So why waste money with E-books ?
Romain
"The smell, the touch, all these element contributes to the reading". I agree with Romain. The reading experience is very sensual and the traditional book remains, in my opinion, a quasi-perfect technology. But I also think that ebooks have a future and that they will coexist peacefully with paper...
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