Ebooks: The Disadvantages Of The Advantage Of Paper Books

Demise of the paper books has been predicted many times over last couple of years. [1] Popularity and adoption rate of ebooks have seen ups and down in a last decade. Cost, portability, availability, interactive features, sustainable, text searchability are the advantages of ebooks over paper books. Moreover, if we consider sustainability ebooks have a really good advantage over papers. To argue in defense of the statement, we can consider the fuel that will be saved by eliminating printing and transporting paper books as a major plus in favor of ebooks. Also, reducing our reliance on paper will result in less trees being cut down when climate change is looming all over the planet alarmingly. It is astonishing that despite having several advantages

For example, adopting to digital books may have consequential effects on world economy. Gobinda Chowdhury mentions that publishing industry has very large impact on European countries economies as it employs hundreds of thousands of people with billions of Euros worth turnover every year. [0.1] Various studies have been conducted in past to understand the functioning of human brains when reading ebooks. Some studies have found that the glare from the ebook reader’s screen stresses human eyes and brain and ultimately resulting into lower comprehensive skills of readers. Apart from that headache, blurred vision, eyestrains are other medical problems are mentioned as a disadvantages of digital books. [3, brains] And hence this research aims to understand the reasons behind students preferring paper textbooks over

mentions a study by Jamali et al., which claimed to be have highest number of participants in a survey (approximately 22,000 from 120 universities) about e-book usage and perception of students. The study reported that students in UK relied heavily on digital book and embraced the introduction of ebooks in academia. The authors went to describe this event as “the e-book revolution” as 61% of students responded in favor of digital books. The study covered wide array of topics in survey question and one notable finding from that was the adoption of ebooks by student from various background. The study reveals that computer science, engineering, business, economics, management, and social sciences are the fields where ebooks are the most heavily used. On the contrary, fields like Medical, Photography and Journalism, Arts, History, Law showed lower usage of ebooks by students. The study hints at the possibility of ebook availability for this trend. And hence, this findings inspired to include ten fields of two eateries (heavily used ebooks and less or moderately used ebooks) to avoid the bias in the