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I think we should start by saying our group had several discussions on this subject, and when trying to agree on the future of The Book Industry the big question was: If a book is electronic and/or made into spark notes, smaller summarizations, blogs, research papers, is it still a book that you are reading?

 

We all know books

brought literacy and still do but we can't give you an answer if you believe a book is not a book if it is electronic form.

 

Our group disagreed so you get to make your decision and we'll give you our thought process on both!

 

 


   The Book Industry Will Evolve

 
According to IDEO, "The Future of the Book" is a design exploration of digital reading that seeks to identify new opportunities for readers, publishers, and authors to discover, consume, and connect in different formats. They made 3 different concepts: Alice- new narratives, Coupland- social reading with richer context, and Nelson- provides tools for critical thinking. Each concept features a simple, accessible storytelling format and a particular look and feel. They believe that digital technology creates possibilities, so the solutions truly adapt closer to the bite-sized character of the digital media, because longhand writing encourages immersion (deep reading) and reflection.

VIDEO EXAMPLE: http://www.ideo.com/work/future-of-the-book/

 

 

 

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Books have with stood Radio, Magazines, TV, and Movies, and the industry changed a little with each one of these. The future is no different, it will change with the internet as well. "Which might mean that the future of innovation in the book publishing industry has less to do with “improving” books with digital technology – that is, turning them into interactive, multimedia platforms – and more to do with tapping into the emotional and psychological associations created by books" "When tech innovators are able to bottle that “warm feeling” in a physical object other than a book, that will be when we can really talk about the next Gutenberg revolution."

 

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"People have now come to understand that once a print book is purchased, they truly own their personal edition of that story. There are no limitations to what they can do with it or to it. There are no licenses (though early print publishers tried, absurdly, to insist on including some with their titles), no terms and conditions that must be applied to how we will use a book. Keeping a book requires no legal contract whatsoever.

 

At last, with print books, we have come to understand what it is like not to be forever leasing information. We can destroy, lend, scribble, mail our books from one country to another in ways that digital platforms stubbornly refuse to permit. If we decide to change the make of our digital device, we need to re-purchase or re-license "our" ebooks, movies, music all over again; but print books remain accessible no matter how or where we choose to read them. It is truly an "open" platform."

 

When we finish a book, we close the cover and are left in peace; there is no online store pushing us instantly to buy and read more.No advertisements will ever pop up related to our reading experience. No videos or chat windows or alerts attempt to distract us from our internal thinking processes. Numerous studies have shown that since the arrival of print, people’s ability and duration of maintaining attention on a single idea has increased. Print is literally changing how we think, and how we look at the worlds around us.

 

 By watching and learning how and why people love each medium, the strengths of one is learning how to overcome the weaknesses of the other.

 

In the case of digital, those strengths include connectedness, ubiquity, unlimited and near-instant supply, multimedia capabilities, multiple input possibilities via digital devices, shareability and the option to include near-constant updating of information, thereby emphasizing the fragility of "the fact." As for print, its strengths include presence, physicality, lack of compatibility issues, complete ownership of the object, the unchanging and private act of reading, personalization and the inclusion of smell and touch as part of the experience. These are complementary functions of existence."

 


 

 

 

 

 

Link to the new way of looking for a book, instead of walking into the Library and glancing at a wall of best sellers and favorites!

http://www.simonandschuster.com/

or

www.goodreads.com

 


 

 

How the Model of the Book Industry Will Adapt in the Future

 

I think will adapt very well in the near future. Reason being, the book industry has already went almost fully digitalized and all the contents of a book are stored in an e-book. But I do believe that printed books might slowly die out for the generation that proceeds us, and schools might just incorporate exclusively technological devices to the classroom. In the future, we won't go out and get a book that we could turn the pages to read; everything will be only on electronic items that display the content at the touch of a finger.

 

I think that books will be more electronic, but will still be a big part of our future.  I don't see paper books going out the window until the current generation is the younger generation that is used to the electronic revolution.  Then it will become more mainstream in our society.  The immediate future I do not see everyone switching from hard cover books for an electronic version.  I see the change start with the younger generation which is already happening with textbooks online for example.  The book industry will adapt to meet future generations needs or desires.  It will just look very different.

 

    

 

 

 


 

The Book Industry In Trouble and Transforming 

 

The book industry is trying to deal with the internet by adapting with it. They are adapting by adding ebooks. Book publishers are adapting to people going to self publishing by scouting out popular independently published books in Amazon and others to find potential authors. 

 

I think the book industry will have trouble in the future because:  

 

-People have smaller attention span thanks to things like twitter and facebook. When we see an article that is really long we will often go back to find a shorter one. why would we read a book if we are to lazy to read a whole article?

 

-Number of people who read for enjoyment is down in young people. Boston.com has reported the studies from the National Endowment of the arts

 

-will the book publishers be able to keep their content safe from piracy?

 

Books will remain to be around but the question is not that, it is whether the industry will survive.

 

-you can go surf the web for free downloads of books like “50 shades of grey” and get lots of options. As this becomes more popular will an industry that is heading towards being completely paperless be able to make enough money through ebooks if many download it free?

 

I think that it should hang around but having everything transformed to ebooks might not necessarily be the best for them, they could have trouble collecting revenue on the content.


 

 

 

 

 

 


Citations

Losowsky, Andrew. "Future Of Print: 'Fully Booked: Ink On Paper' Showcases Amazing Innovations In Physical Books (PHOTOS)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 17 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

"Future of the Books." Ideo.com. IDEO, 2010. Web. 16 Feb. 2014

"good reads" The new way to meet your next favorite book. goodreads.com Web 7 April. 2014.

Hughes, Evan. "The New Republic." New Republic. N.p., 8 Oct. 2013. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.

"Simon & Schuster." New Book Releases, Bestsellers, Author Info and More at. Simon and Schuster, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.

Bastulto, Dominic. "The Future of Books: From Gutenberg to E-readers." The Washington Post. N.p., 20 Sept. 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2014 

Comments (5)

Alisha Kramer said

at 10:39 pm on Feb 22, 2014

Sean, Do you want to explain how you feel that books will be gone in the future and we will give both points of view?!

shawn kuehl said

at 12:09 pm on Feb 23, 2014

sounds fantastic to me!!!!

shawn kuehl said

at 10:56 am on Feb 26, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq5GLE1FG1E might use this for a video guys

Tejas said

at 11:38 am on Feb 26, 2014

If we think we more time I think we could use the video.

allyxiong said

at 12:42 pm on Feb 26, 2014

Hey Alisha... So because you're editing both present and future... wanna fix the fonts and such? lol

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