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The Advantages And Disadvantages Of E-Books

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Introduction
E-book are extremely popular nowadays. It is extremely convenient to read e-book via latest gadgets such as tablets, e-Readers and smartphones. However, various field of study and research already proof that there are many disadvantages behind these technologies. This report has been written to urge the person who in charge our stage library to think twice before shifting purchasing material weightage from real book to e-books.

Problems identification
Recent studies from different parties already show that e-book are not as good as we thought before. Last quarter, the book industry released figures showing that e-book sales were down so far this year while print remained relatively. Market shows that the trend is more only side to e-book but …show more content…

Printed Book are better for health
Printed books are better for our health. A medical school study last year found that reading from a e-book a before bed interferes our ability to sleep, alertness the following days and our overall health.

Real Simple reports that reading an actual book helps increase intelligence and can even help you relax as opposed to the e-books that are favored by the technologically savvy people in this digital age. Eyes are tiring when focus on screens for longer period.

4.Cost of Real Book versus E-Book
E-book or multimedia are not cheap as what we think is. Some multimedia material are expensive on the licensing to use. E-book are not free at all. It incurred more cost in design and packaging. Student only can view these media in the library, they are not allowed to duplicate these multimedia due to privacy issues. We must give a respect to the author as well.
Another reason causing e-book are not common may due to hardware support some family is insufficient because some of them just cannot afford to buy a new computer or personal laptop to cater for minimum system requirement of the particular software. No doubt these already bring up the setup cost for e-book in some

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