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This article was published on January 18th 2021. It has both sides of the claim in this article. The source is Investopedia. It supports and it is against my claim because it says some reasons why e-books are better and some reasons why printed books are better. The purpose of this information is to show both sides of the claim in one article.

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E-Books vs. Print Books: An Overview

E-books have become a mainstay of the publishing industry. However, predictions of the demise of printed books as a result of the introduction of e-books has not materialized thus far.

At the end of 2023, the industry was up 0.4% over 2022, with total revenues from all categories at $12.6 billion. Overall, print books experienced decreases in revenue, and e-book revenues were up just 0.6%. Let's take a deeper look at both options and the publishing industry in general.

Recent History of Print Books and E-Books

According to the Association of American Publishers, e-book sales in the U.S. were down 1.5% during the first quarter of 2024 compared to the first three months of 2023, for a total of $255.6 million in revenue. They currently make up 12% of total consumer book sales. Their share of the market has been inching up over time, but hardcover and paperback books still rule the market, with approximately $3.3 billion and $3.1 billion in sales in 2023, respectively.

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was a boon to print publishing. Sales rose 8.2% year over year to a total of 751 million copies, according to Printing Impressions, a publishing industry journal. More leisure time and a need to educate children at home were cited as reasons for the book-buying spree.

2022 brought about several unique trends. First, paperback and hardback revenue both decreased, with hardback coming in 13.6% lower than the year before. E-books also declined, falling 6.5%. It's interesting to note that digital audio revenue grew 71.7% from 2021 to 2022.

Print Books

Print books have the feel of a book that many readers love. You can hold it, turn the pages, and feel the paper. People who love to read spend a lifetime acquiring books. They may find it wrenching to abandon their shelves of books for a single slab of plastic.

Readers may also compare the quality of illustrations between the two formats and find the print versions superior. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes can be bought in either hardcover or Kindle versions but readers may find the Kindle version lacking due to the shrunken size of the illustrations and the relative clumsiness of toggling between story text and annotations.

Some readers also experience eye strain using an electronic device instead of a printed book.

Books on paper are difficult to carry around, especially hardcovers. If you're an avid reader and you're going on a trip, or if you're just stepping out to a coffee shop, an e-reader or iPad is a far lighter burden than a book or a stack of them.

There's also the satisfaction of having an entire library at your fingertips, not to mention an infinite supply just a click away, ready to download instantly.

In addition, e-book buyers have the advantage that the internet gives consumers of any products: No space constraints. Just about everything ever published is available, all the time.

There are some drawbacks. You must recharge an e-reader or any other electronic device. Some screens are not easily readable in sunlight. And, if you are one of the millions who spend the entire workday in front of a computer, reading your favorite author on a computer screen in the evening may not appeal.

Beyond Amazon

Avid e-book readers can stray beyond Amazon or Barnes and Noble and read for free.

The nonprofit Project Gutenberg offers 70,000 free downloadable books, most of them classics well beyond their copyright protection expiration dates. The site Free Classic Books offers just that, in an alphabetized list from Alcott, Louisa M., to Wodehouse, P.G.

Google Books also brags that it has more than 10 million books available to download for free, including textbooks and government documents as well as literary classics.

Special Considerations: The Publishing Business

E-books may omit some of the traditional costs of publishing, but it imposes other costs. Added technology costs involve formatting the e-book so that various electronic devices and browsers can properly download and store the book.

Whether it's printed or downloaded, a percentage of the e-book price must be paid to online sellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This can be anywhere from 30% to 65% of the sale price.

The Independent Route

Smaller publishers and independent authors have more leeway with pricing, but they still have many of the same costs. They must give a percentage of their e-book sales to the online distributor, and unless they are graphic designers, they must hire an illustrator to create their cover art.

Most independent authors have to hire someone to convert their books into e-book format. Plus, they still have the marketing and promotional costs that are required to get their books noticed. However, e-books are overall lower in cost to produce, and that is typically reflected in their lower prices compared to print editions.

Print Books, E-Books, and Personal Finance

With the overview of the industry behind us, let's talk about the finances of owning books. There's a handful of personal finance considerations to make about which to buy.

Upfront Cost

Purchasing an e-reader may involve a higher initial investment than buying a single printed book. However, the economic advantage lies in the long-term savings as e-books may be priced lower than their physical counterparts (as they may cost less to produce). The upfront cost of an e-reader can be considered a one-time expense, and PCMag often recommends e-readers that cost less than $100.

Subscription Costs

Subscription services like Kindle Unlimited or Audible offer a cost-effective way to access a vast library of e-books. From an economic standpoint, these services can significantly reduce the per-book cost for avid readers, making it a financially smart move as opposed to buying individual books. However, you will not retain ownership during this subscription period, and you won't keep books like you otherwise would a print book. Also, there are no subscription costs for print books that you can check out of a public library with a free library card.

Book Resale Value

The resale value of physical books adds an economic dimension to owning a print collection. Used bookstores, online platforms, and book swaps provide avenues for recovering some of the initial investment in printed books. E-books, unfortunately, lack a resale market, making them less financially flexible in this regard.

Storage Costs

Physical books incur storage costs in terms of space requirements and furniture like bookshelves. And consider how much it may cost to move those physical books if you need to relocate homes. The economic advantage of e-books is that they eliminate the need for physical storage or moving expenses, meaning readers can amass a vast collection without incurring additional costs.

Environmental Cost

From an economic perspective, the environmental impact of printed books, including production and disposal costs, contributes to their overall expense. E-books, unfortunately, may not be as sustainable as you might think. The continual need for electricity and the use of fossil fuels to generate it mean that e-books still contribute to environmental costs, just in a different way than printed books do.

Production and Distribution Costs

The cost of producing and distributing physical books encompasses expenses related to paper, printing, transportation, and warehousing. E-books sidestep these costs, offering a potentially more economically efficient model for publishers and authors. Though the costs may vary based on each book and genre, the total cost to self-publish a book are unofficially estimated to be several thousand dollars.

Accessibility

The economic advantage of e-books in terms of accessibility is evident for readers with visual impairments. Digital formats allow for features like adjustable text size and screen-reading technology, enhancing the reading experience for a broader audience.

Change in Preference

Changes in reading habits have implications for e-books and printed book owners. Think of someone who's preference may shift from one genre to another very quickly. If this sounds like you, the greater flexibility that electronic media offers may make more financial sense.

Which Is More Cost-Effective in the Long Run: Buying E-books or Printed Books?

Is There a Significant Difference in the Resale Value of E-books and Printed Books?

What Is the Impact of E-books on Local Bookstores From an Economic Standpoint?

The Bottom Line

E-books offer a potentially cost-effective solution for avid readers. The absence of physical production costs, reduced storage needs, and frequent digital promotions may make a digital library more cost effective. On the other hand, printed books may have resale value, no subscription cost, and greater sentimental appeal to old-fashioned readers. There are many factors to consider when choosing between e-books and printed books from a financial perspective.

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E-Books vs. Print Books: Which Should You Choose?

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Compare the differences between e-books and print books and decide where you stand on the print versus digital debate.

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[This is intended as satire. The author is not yet ancient, cynical, technophobic, or curmudgeonly. He's actually a pretty pleasant guy who enjoys many modern conveniences. - David Ferrer]

1. Zombie Apocalypse Test

When the zombie apocalypse knocks out the electricity in town and the internet is down, your books will still work just fine. You might even be able to fight off a zombie or two by swinging a sizable Oxford Dictionary.

2. Book Smell

No one raves about the ebook smell like they do about the "old book smell."

Ebooks are designed to distract you with links and "helps." Books are designed for focus.

4. Feel Your Progress

You can physically feel your progress through a book as the upcoming pages get fewer and fewer. Not so with ebooks.

The physical weight of the book imparts a sense of gravitas. In reading a book you are dealing with a real thing and not just digital wind, so it feels like something to take more seriously, respect more, and value greater than an ebook.

6. Marginalia

You can write in the margins of books, but not with ebooks. Ebooks won't let you write in different sizes at the same time, use cursive, or draw lines from one sentence to a note. Some of them won't let you write anything at all. I like to write insults and complaints in my margins.

Ebooks are designed for speed with skimming, scrolling, and linking. But physical books are designed for slow processing, with larger pages, no links, and concentrated singular lines of thought. The effect is slowness and patience instead of frenetic haste.

8. Bookmarking

Ebooks have "bookmarks" but it's not the same and it doesn't work as well as real books. With real books, you can hold multiple places at once and flip back and forth between them in split seconds without losing your original place. Moreover, since the text never changes locations in a real book, it's easier to find your place in the book.

9. Used Books

real books have a used-book market, which means you have access to tons of cheap books. This also leads to endless recycling of old books for new people and new shelves.

10. Used Book Shops

The iconic used-book shop is an important piece of academic noir that calls all participants to be thoughtful, conversant, and intelligent. Having coffee, a pastry, and a good book to talk about - that's an irreplaceable experience with no equivalent in the ebook world. Ebooks have no "used book shop." If used book shops are an endangered species, ebooks are like poachers.

The iconic used-book shop is an important piece of academic noir.

11. Decoration

Books aren't just for reading, they also decorate your walls and nightstands (and stairs, and floors, and counters, and rafters, and chimneys, etc.). Even as decoration, books breathe an air of intelligence into the room - unless it's the Twilight series.

12. Eye-Strain

Ebooks are hard on the eyes, at least when read from tablets, phones, or conventional computer screens. Regular books don't cause the eye-strain that ebooks do. Some E-Readers have "low light" and "no glare" screens. That's good, but even these are hard to read in direct sunlight. With regular books, that's not a problem.

13. Multiple Books

If you are in the thick of a research paper and you need to have five different books open at once, physical books afford that option. But your E-Reader or you phone does not. On a tablet or computer screen, you can keep separate "tabs" for different books, provided they are all on different sites. But the more tabs you have open, the slower your computer will run, and the more likely it will crash. Physical books don't have a hard drive, so you can "tab" as many locations as you want (i.e., dog-ear the corner), and they will never crash.

14. Haptic/Tactile Pleasure

Books have a feel to them, with texture, thickness, and weight. There's more interactivity with the physicality of the book than there is with an E-Reader. Many people find the "feel" of books more satisfying and nostalgic than with ebooks (see, Baron, Words On Screen, pg. 142-7). Compared to the substantial tactile experience of books, a thin little E-Reader feels like a toy.

15. Deep Reading

Perhaps the most glaring singular advantage of books is their fitness for deep reading. Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows (2011) centers on this point; deep reading just doesn't work with social media, ebooks, or most anything online. Ebooks permit too many distractions, use smaller pages, and reduce physical interactivity, making it hard if not impossible for regular readers to engage in deep reading - that is, focused, higher critical analysis for hours at a time.

16. Emotional Connection

Related to the deep reading, the physicality of books invites a physical person-to-object relation, lending more "realness" to the characters and stories. The effect is that books enable emotional connectivity where ebooks do not. Naomic Baron summarizes this point: "I wonder if anyone has ever cried reading an ebook?" (Words On Screen, 149). Good question.

Moving from a serious note to a trivial note, physical books are great storage for old letters, receipts, notes, lists, pressed flowers, leaves, or similar thin things. A well-worn book can be veritable storehouse of old memories.

18. Stationary Text

Books keep the text stationary; the paragraph on page seven is always on page seven; it will not shift to page eight or page six when you turn your phone sideways. Ebooks ruin this verbal stability by moving the text all around depending on the orientation of the phone, keyword searches, font-size, and which device you are reading it from. D.T. Max expresses this concern with keen insight, asking, "What is a culture if the information that forms it never stands still." ("The Electronic Book," The American Scholar 16, no. 3, pg. 18.)

19. Spatial Memory

The stationary text is an advantage in its own right, but it has the added benefit of serving spatial memory. A great deal of our memory and comprehension in reading involves visual-spatial memory. We can find quotes, or remember lines, or retrace a course of thought on the basis of where those words were on the page. Location in a text can help us remember things about the text, but it won't help you remember where you put your glasses.

20. Batteries Not Included

Books work just fine without batteries.

21. No Charger Needed

Books don't need a charger, a plug, or an outlet.

22. No Wi-Fi Needed

Books work fine without a WiFi password, and no one in a foreign country can hack your book and steal whatever you wrote in your book. They'd have to steal the book, and that's just not that likely.

23. No Phone Signal Needed

Your E-Reader may still allow you to download a book without a wifi signal, if you at least have a cell phone signal. But if you don't have that either, well, your E-Reader will disappoint you worse than a Veggie-burger. A trusty old book will not disappoint. He's like a good hunting dog. He will be just fine, curled up with you, in a log cabin isolated from the rest of civilization. #heaventome

24. Off the Grid

Combining the last three points, books are perfectly suited to keep you off the grid. You may not appreciate this point now, but when Big Brother is reading your emails, and tracking your phone, and monitoring your social media, and just generally creeps you out, you'll be glad that you can turn all that off and have a little privacy, a comfortable chair, a pot of coffee, and a good book that no one else is monitoring.

25. Theft Protection

Most books aren't interesting to thieves. You can leave your book at your table and go pick up your coffee from the counter, and no one will snatch it like they would with a laptop, tablet, or phone. Fancy electronics are a liability. Your copy of 50 Shades of Gross has no street-value whatsoever. No one will steal it. Trust me.

26. Unique Experience

Each book you read is a new physical experience while ebooks are all just new ways to experience the same old cell-phone (or E-Reader, or tablet).

27. Pagination

This is a real pet peeve of mine. Have you ever tried to cite a page from an ebook? Me too! Did it work? Me neither! Ebooks don't care if you are writing a book, an article, or a research paper that's due tomorrow morning at 8am. Most of the ebooks I've encountered break the book into "percentage completed" or they paginate the screens as if that helps any. You simply cannot reliably cite page numbers from ebooks, so they are effectively useless for academic citations.

28. Beach Reading

Just try to have a nice long reading session, with your ebook, from a lounge chair on a sunny beach. Go ahead. I dare you. Good luck with that. #booksarebetter

29. Shame Reading

Even life-long readers can slack off and don't finish the books they should finish, or read the books they'd like to. This is a matter of personal character, and a shelf full of books can help. Physical books "shame you from the shelves." They remind you of the promissory notes you wrote to yourself when you said, "I really need to read that book someday." Well, if today isn't someday, then someday never comes.

30. Serendipitous Reading

There is a special book-lover's delight in stumbling across a gem in a stack of books, or on the shelf. Used bookstores can have some real finds you'd never encounter online. Physical shelved books enable serendipitous reading. Meanwhile, ebooks are listed on sites organized by impersonal algorithms and semantically obtuse keywording programs. The effect is that you end up with books similarly titled and keyworded to the other books you've read. But you will miss those books with unusual titles, or those which haven't been keyworded, or those which otherwise defy the algorithm metrics. Essentially, you have a pseudo-smart computer program presenting you book recommendations instead of letting you truly see for yourself the bookstore or library of randomized titles that might strike your fancy.

31. Personalization

Books can be personalized in a way that ebooks cannot. You can draw pictures, add book-covers, create flip-books in the bottom corner, or scrawl XOXOXO and arrow-hearts around the author's picture. You can't do this with ebooks.

32. Ownership

Maybe you didn't realize this, but you never really own an ebook. You are only renting them permanently. A digital library owns the book, doesn't charge late fees, and then reclaims it whenever you die (or whenever you forget the password on your device). If you transition to a new device, or a new account, you are liable to lose some of the books you purchased because they aren't transferrable to that format, or to that brand, or to that device. With physical books, you have real genuine ownership to go along with your personalization. If you wrote along the side of the book, "David Hasselhoff is a god among men," your book will stand out as uniquely yours compared to every other book in the world.

33. Side Writing

You can write on the side of the book. But you can't write on the side of an ebook - that concept doesn't even make sense. You can write on an E-Reader-that's a physical object - but ebooks don't even have "sides." They are literally two dimensional; the pages don't take up space, so an ebook has no "side" on which to write anything about Hasselhoff even if you wanted to.

34. Vertical Writing

As I was researching for this very list, I felt the urge to turn the book sideways and write vertically on the back page. Once I turned that corner, somehow, I was able to unlock another level of creativity and write thirteen more points on the list. Take that ebooks!

35. No software update

You will never have to download an update to your book. When you open it up, the text is there to read. It's not hidden behind some screen saying "Update Now or you'll never see your precious little story again."

36. Reduces Multitasking

Most everything digital cultivates short-attention spans and multi-tasking distraction. On the average E-Reader or ebook app on your phone, there are scroll-down lists, alerts, and call-outs which are designed to make you look at something else. Now distraction is a problem and we mentioned that already. But some of you may think you're good at doing a bunch of things at once so you excuse these distractions under the banner of multitasking. According to studies at the University of Utah, only about 2.5% of people can multitask without signficant loss in quality (cited in Baron, 180). That means for 97.5% of people, they are doing several things poorly at the same time. They aren't really "multitasking." The multitude of tasks are shallowed and weakened by one's attempt to do all of them at once. Your book reading works the same way; it's less-engaged and more trivial when you submit it to the distracting whims of your cell phone, even if you think you are "multitasking." This is one more way that books are better in print than on screen.

We mentioned one liability above - theft. But books are also low risk in other ways. Typical new books cost maybe $5-20 dollars. An E-Reader or cell-phone allows you to store up hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of books, games, and apps. What happens if you drop it on the street? With a physical book, you just pick it back up again. You brush the scuff off, and move on with life. With your $300 E-Reader, your $800 cell phone, or your $1,000 tablet - if you drop it hard on the street, the next reasonable thing to do is scream bloody murder then cry like a baby. Life is over. The day is done. That wouldn't have happened if you were just carrying a book instead.

38. Addiction-free

Rarely do people get addicted to physical books. Meanwhile, digital addiction is like cholera for moderns. It's the most pervasive and growing epidemic of our day. If you don't want to be another statistic, you may want to use a book for your next reading binge.

39. Reduces Power-Browsing

Many people have embraced the internet age by adapting their reading habits for the absolute glut of information pouring in every day. One adaptation is "power-browsing." It's actual reading, but works like skimming in that it's a fast-paced and far-reaching form of browsing. Power-browsing is fine for what it is, but it's the polar opposite of deep reading. If deep reading is an inch wide and a mile deep, power browsing is a mile wide and an inch deep. Book reading caters to deep reading while internet surfing, and E-Reading tend towards power-browsing.

40. Mental-Mapping

Books are three dimensional physical objects with length, width, height, weight, texture, and smell. They carry information in a physical way, enabling you, the reader, to create a mental map of their stories and ideas. Our minds gravitate towards physical illustrations, mnemonic devices, and memory cues when we try to formulate a comprehensive understanding of something. Books work well for this since they have all the same verbal cues to aid your memory and understanding, but they also have physical cues to help you too. E-Readers don't work as well for mental mapping because there are fewer tangible and stationary qualities to grasp at in organizing your mental map. The result is that books allow you to follow the whole course of an argument, like you are tracing the path on a map. Meanwhile, ebooks break the text into searchable snippets that don't hang together as a whole text.

41. Memorization

Related to mental mapping, the fact that book texts are stationary allows your memory to seize upon that object permanence and remember lines, ideas, names, and dates with great ease. They have a reliable physical location on a given page. That location will not change in the book. When you want to seriously study a book, and remember key ideas, quotes, and data, you are far better served with a book than an ebook.

42. No Fine Motor Skills Required

E-Readers are often hampered by touch-sensitive features. They are supposed to be convenient, but what if your hands are cold and shaky? Or the screen display is wonky and won't let you touch the corner you want to highlight? Or what if your fingers are too fat for the tiny little keys on the screen? Books won't give you a hard time, but most everyone with a phone, tablet, or E-Reader has had to wrestle with their device for their lack of fine motor skills.

Books are artifacts, tangible human creations.

43. Fewer Car Accidents

Texting-while driving is against the law in many cities. But people still check their phones for messages, notifications, and even E-Reading. Of course E-Reading while driving is no better than texting, and it might be worse. Besides the threat to life, property damage, and the foolishness of this, the greater crime is that people who do this have just weaponized literature. For shame! Books don't do that. People don't drive while reading books, not normally at least. And if they do, call the police.

44. Tradeable

Physical books are tradeable. You can gift them to friends. You can pass out copies of books you've read and don't want anymore. You can donate them to charity. Ebooks are stuck in your device and can't be recirculated into the community, the economy, or the rest of the world.

45. Tangible Reality

Physical books are real, concrete objects. Ebooks just don't hold the same tangible reality, the same felt value as traditional books. One student in Singapore demonstrated the difference. Speaking of a story she read first as an ebook, "I loved it so much I had to save up and buy this," . . . stroking the printed version of fantasy novel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. She added, "Holding it makes it more real."

46. More Noir/Romantic

Reading a good book on a porch swing, or on a train, or at a coffee shop or bookstore - that's an iconic setting for meaningful human experience. It's a romantic/nostalgic scene to be engrossed in a book within the beauty of natural scenery. That iconic scene crumbles if you replace the book with some electronic device. Existentially speaking, books help connect you to the natural world while ebooks tether you to the artificial world.

47. Artifacts

Books are artifacts, tangible human creations. Books are the stuff of archeology, history, and anthropology. They are part of our physical culture. Ebooks carry information, and they are fine for what they are, but they aren't suited for museum displays. They aren't precious expensive artifacts of bygone civilizations. They aren't mementos of important times in our life, or childhood memories. Compared to books, ebooks are ephemeral wind.

48. One-on-One Conversation

The simplicity of books allow the reader to have a one-on-one conversation with the author. You can read what they are saying, write comments in the margins, take notes in the back, and reread important sections. But if books are like a one-on-one conversation, ebooks are like a crowded noisy room where the whole experience is stuffed with distractions and cross-talk.

49. Some Volumes are Best Suited for Printing

For short books, short stories, news, and otherwise small reading tasks, ebooks are adequate. Form follows function. But for long, deep, and analytic texts, a print book is necessary. Print demands also raise other problems. Sometimes, the formatting of the book requires a full, static, page. For example, long lines of poetry would break unevenly, or against the author's intentions, if they were forced into the small screen format of a cell phone or palm-sized E-Reader.

50. Object Permanence

Books have a lasting power unrivaled by anything in the digital age. We have books from thousands of years ago. And if we don't die in a nuclear holocaust, we'll have books for thousands more years. But, chances are, you probably have a iPod or E-Reader that's broken and useless. That thing is only a couple years old. And it probably has content that is forever lost unless you can repair it. Books have lasting power where ebooks are unproven and possibly fleeting.

Where do we go from here?

The likely forecast is that people will continue to use print books for some purposes and ebooks for other purposes.

Despite my ranting and raving against ebooks, they do have some value and they aren't going away any time soon. The likely forecast is that people will continue to use print books for some purposes and ebooks for other purposes. They'll pick and choose, buffet-style, however they desire at the moment.

The digital revolution is here to stay, but if we can keep our wits about us we don't have to vomit from the nauseating pace of change, and the endless drivel from utopian futurists who expect every little gadget to make the world a better place. Consider that people have tried for decades to shift education to digital books and E-Readers. Perhaps they think these handicapped tablets will make learning "cool." Bah humbug! Next they'll be telling us how to make tasty zero-calorie chocolate cake or how to have a happy marriage with no commitments. I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile, I'll keep my books on the shelf right where they belong and you can keep your E-Reader as long as it lasts.

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This is intended as satire. The author is not yet ancient, cynical, technophobic, or curmudgeonly. He's actually a pretty pleasant guy who enjoys many modern conveniences. - David Ferrer] When the zombie apocalypse knocks out the electricity in town and the internet is down, your books will still work just fine.

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In the 2000s we saw the arrival of the tablet and along with that came e-readers such as the iPad and Kindles.The developers of these devices hoped and claimed it would revolutionize how consumers enjoy their favorite novels and books, and for many people, it has and will continue to do so, but latest figures now show that the e-books bubble might have burst. These recent figures showed a decline in e-book sales, while traditional book sales remained steady with a slight increase.

The reason for that trend is open to speculation, however, the growth in cheap book printing options has led to many authors opting to revert to publishing in traditional print over e-books.This would have led to an increased availability of printed books but doesn't totally explain the decline in e-book sales.

To explore why we might have seen a return by readers to traditional books we are going to look at the top eight reasons why printed books are better than e-books.

More Enjoyable for Reader

On a printed book you have nice soft pages, making it an enjoyable experience reading a printed book. An e-book is more clinical and can feel like using an ATM. Most of us now work on computers, the last thing we want to go home and do is stare at another screen with writing on it.

Better for Keeping Up with the Plot

A study by the Guardian found that readers could recall information conveyed to them in a printed book far better than those reading the exact same book on an e-reader.This meant that the readers of traditional books were enjoying the book more as they were keeping up with the plots and twists of the story.

On the face of it, you might look at your tablet and think that looks sturdier and less likely to be damaged than your paper book, however, is that really the case.How many people's iPad's or Kindle's last much beyond five years, let alone ten years, no matter how well you look after it?A book you purchased, on the other hand, is yours for life.In twenty years' time you will be able to pick up a book you purchased today and read it, will the gadgets in twenty years still be compatible with the format of your e-book today, unlikely!

Each time you read a book you invest your time and energy into that novel or story, which creates enjoyable memories.Picking up that beat-up copy of "Of Mice and Men" might take you back to English class at school.Or there is that tour book stained with wine that sits on your bookshelf bought during your gap year journey around Europe.Whatever, each books' own memory to you is, they have one, where is a tablet is that, just a tablet.

Enjoying Books as a Community

Traditional printed books are great for sharing.When we finish a story, if we have enjoyed it we want to tell our friends "You've got to read this".With a print book, you can share it with them by simply handing them the book to read.However, to share an e-book you must navigate a digital minefield of protections and agreements, and once you have done that it comes across with all the warmth of sending an email.

It is a little-known fact, but printed books are usually a lot fairer to the writer.According to the Author's Guild publishers will award a much lower percentage of royalties on an e-book compared to print books.The lower percentage given to authors will make it much more difficult for them to earn a living or write a follow-up book.So, the simple way to support authors you like is by buying a book over an e-book.

Studies have shown that print books are much better for your health than e-books.There are several reasons for this, but the main two are as follows.The e-reader which your e-book is on omits a light which has been proven to severally impact on sleep if read late at night.The second reason it is better for your mental health to read a physical book over an e-book as the feeling of achievement and satisfaction is greater when completing a physical book over an e-book.

This might seem a strange one but is certainly true, physical books are theft prove.If you leave a book in the front seat of your car or unattended in a public place, it is almost certainly going to be there when you get back.This is probably not going to be the case if you tried the same thing with your iPad or Kindle.

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In the 2000s we saw the arrival of the tablet and along with that came e-readers such as the iPad and Kindles. The developers of these devices hoped and claimed it would revolutionize how consumers enjoy their favorite novels and books, and for many people, it has and will continue to do so, but latest figures now show that the e-books bubble might have burst.

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This article was published on January 6th 2019. It focuses on the pleasures of reading a paper book over an e-book. The source is Writoscope. The article supports my claim because it shows that printed books are better because they offer more pleasantries to the reader like images. The informations purpose is to show how reading e-books doesn't give you as good as a feeling than you do when you are reading a printed book.

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While everything around us is getting the switch to the digital, the question of ebooks vs printed books is in constant debate. Sometimes it becomes difficult to decide between the ebooks and printed books. A couple of years back, I bought a kindle basic to try ebooks. So, in this article, I refer to amazon kindle as an ebook reader. There are a lot of pros and cons on both sides. As per my experience with ebooks and printed books. I tried to list out the main supporting factors on both sides of ebooks vs printed books as 7 main reasons one is better than the other.

7 Reasons printed books are better than ebooks

1. The feel of paper: For some people, this is a very important factor. For avid readers, holding a book in hand, the smell of the paper, nice binding and flipping through pages is a beautiful feeling which lacks in a digital device. Also, it feels great to always have a book nearby, no matter if you read it or not.

2. Sharing the books: You can share a printed book with any friend or colleague whereas paid ebooks (from online stores like kindle store) can be used with one account only. That means you cannot share purchased ebooks with a friend without sharing your account credentials. This is one very important factor in the debate of ebooks vs printed books.

3. Illustrations and images: Printed books are great when it comes to displaying images and illustrations. whereas ebook readers are not so good at this. Along with this, ebook readers support the black and white display, not colored. So the genres of photography, cooking etc are more successful as print books.

4. Flexibility in Annotating: Annotating a printed book is very whereas It is very limited in an ebook. In a printed book you can use pencils and pens of different colors to highlight, use symbols, drawings etc. But this feature is very limited in an ebook where you can only highlight lines, bookmark pages and add some notes.

5. Ability to skim quickly: It is easier to skim a real book than an ebook. Going back and forth in a printed book is much faster as compared to that an ebook reader.

6. No need for electric power: You don't need to charge printed books. Since it needs no electric power. You can carry them anywhere without the worry of charging.

7. Cheaper than ebook reader: A printed book is much cheaper than the ebook reader. If you don't read much, a print book will be more economical. But if you read a lot of books, the overall cost is reduced with an ebook reader.

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7 Reasons ebooks are better than printed books

1. Ease of reading: Reading on an ebook reader is great. Most of them provide one-hand experience. Most of the times, you won't need to use two hands. You can read at any angle and posture. The ebook readers with inbuilt light allow you to read in dark without any eyestrain.

2. Access to thousands of books: An Ebook reader is very lightweight. You can carry thousands of books anywhere since ebook carries just a digital copy of the book. Imagine you are going for a long tour and you don't want to carry a lot of books in your luggage. It is even lighter than a medium sized book. Printed books can be heavy, especially the one with thousands of pages and hardcover ones.

3. Cost effective: The ebook reader might look costly. But that is a one-time investment. When it comes to purchasing the books for the ebook reader. The price of ebooks is pretty less than the printed ones. Along with that, there are thousands of free ebooks available on the internet for download. This is considered a very important factor while talking about ebooks vs printed books.

4. Highlighting & bookmarking: Highlighting and bookmarking is really simple in an ebook vs printed book. Just one finger is enough for all this, no pencil/pen needed. You can quickly review the note. All the notes are accessible online in one place where you can view, share, download or print. No need to go through the entire book again.

5. Inbuilt dictionaries, Wikipedia and X-Ray: Amazon Kindle has inbuilt dictionaries, Wikipedia and X-ray feature (a feature of to explore the characters and summary of the book). You don't need to carry a dictionary or phone while reading. When you don't understand the meaning of any word, just tap on it and the definition will be displayed instantly.

6. Instant availability of books: Ebooks never goes out of stock. After all, they are digital copies. Once you purchase an ebook, you can download them instantly and start reading it. You don't need to wait for the delivery of the book.

7. Free samples: When you are looking for an ebook, generally the seller provides a sample which contains some parts of initial chapters, the table of contents etc. This helps you to start reading without actually purchasing the book. If you like it and want to continue, you can purchase it.

Ebooks vs Printed books: Which is better?

There are a lot of factors on both sides, but ultimately it comes down to personal preference. I read books like 1984, Wonder and The girl on the train on my kindle, click links to read my reviews on these. I suggest you can try a Kindle basic in beginning and see if that works for you. Let us know what do you prefer? Ebooks or printed books or a combination of both? Share your views with us in the comments section below, please leave feedback and share if you like this post. You can contact us if you have any questions or requests.

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While everything around us is getting the switch to the digital, the question of ebooks vs printed books is in constant debate. Sometimes it becomes difficult to decide between the ebooks and printed books. A couple of years back, I bought a kindle basic to try ebooks.

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This article was published on March 6th 2019. It relates to my topic because the counterclaim for "Printed books are better than e-books" is the e-books are better than printed books.  The source is Managed Outsource Solutions. The information is against my claim because think that printed books are better than e-books, but this shows reasons why e-books are better than printed books. The purpose of this information is that it shows why e-books are better than printed books.

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Electronic books (eBooks) are book publications available in digital format. These books include text, images or both and can be read on dedicated e-reader devices as well as on any computer device that features a controllable viewing screen including desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. E-books provide various advantages compared to traditional books including an enhanced reading experience, ease of portability and reduced storage space. A reliable document conversion company can convert any book or document into eBooks that can be read on the popular e-Readers available in the market including Amazon Kindle and Fire, iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, laptops, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader, Barnes and Noble Nook.

However, many readers still prefer print books to eBooks. The reason for this is the tactile feel offered by traditional printed media.

E-books Statistics

Statista, the Statistics Portal reported that 20 percent of book readers in the U.S. read more e-books than hard copy books. In 2018, about 26 percent of American book readers said they had read an e-book in the last year. In fact, print books were still arguably the more popular format among U.S. readers.

EBooks have some distinct benefits and offer versatility which physical books may not be able to offer. Print books aren't going away anytime soon, but there are several situations in which eBooks offer an advantage over traditional print books.

EBooks eliminate the need to leave the house to buy new books or borrow them from a local library - You can buy eBooks directly from a digital bookstore and download them instantly to your device. Nowadays, libraries offer digital eBook lending, which enables readers to instantly download library books for free to their eReader without the need to visit the library. Moreover, eBooks allow readers to acquire an entire library of new books on their eReader, while still lounging on their couch.

EBooks are portable - Physical books, especially hardbound editions, are very heavy. Most modern eReader devices are designed to be lightweight. It is very easy to carry an eReader containing an entire library of books on an airplane or on the train than to carry a physical book or two. Once you have finished reading a book while traveling, it is much easier to obtain a new eBook than to find a place to buy new books. If your digital eBook collection is synced to a cloud service, then it is possible to read your eBooks on your phone any time from any location.

No late fees for library eBooks - A late fee will be charged if you borrow a physical book from the library and forget to return it. Nowadays, many libraries offer eBook loans in addition to their print book offerings. So, if you borrow a digital library book and forget to return it by its due date, its license will expire on your device and no late fee is involved. In addition, eReaders make accessing library materials easier than ever.

eReaders have built-in dictionaries - Modern eReaders have built-in dictionaries that allow you to look up words by tapping on the word that you probably don't know. The dictionary definition will appear right on the screen. It is very useful for younger readers, foreign language students, and adult native speakers However, while reading a print book, if you come across a word that you don't know, you either have to find a physical dictionary or pull up your phone or tablet to look up the word. In most cases, you don't bother about it and are just left wondering what the word exactly means.

Takes Up Much Less Space - Dedicated readers are likely to collect a lot of books, which in turn can take up too much space and make your home feel cluttered. However, eBooks will not take up much physical space in your home. In addition, you can fit literally thousands of books on your computer and it is also easier to manage a large digital collection of books than bookshelves filled with hundreds or thousands of books.

Document scanning companies providing eBook conversion services are much sought after by book publishing companies because of the increase in demand for eBooks. Most popular service providers provide the conversion service at affordable rates for publishing houses as well as individuals looking to publish their works.

Possible to customize font size and style in eBooks - EBooks allow you to change the font size or even the font style. It is possible to adjust the font size in any eBook to be readable to you. In addition, you can customize the appearance of the text to suit your needs. This can really speed up the reading process. Providing space between lines and adjusting font size is useful for people with bad vision. Moreover, choosing a more readable font is going to make things more pleasant.

Can be easily updated and upgraded - Today, information changes rapidly. Books on many subjects can become outdated very quickly. However, eBooks can be easily and quickly kept up to date.

More Environmentally Friendly than Print Books - EReaders take fewer resources to create than a modest number of books. In fact, manufacturing one Kindle produces as much CO2 as producing 30 print books. Even though paper can be recycled, the paper recycling process itself can cause excess environmental pollution because of the sludge that is produced during the de-inking process.

Possible to read in the dark - As eReaders are backlit, there is no need to have an external light source to read eBooks. It is possible to read eBooks in the dark or in low-light situations anywhere. Once your eReader is fully charged, you can read the your book in bed during power outages, or outside in the evening without needing an external book light.

The following are the reasons why it is considered that ebooks are better than print books. Partnering with document conversion companies offering ebooks conversion services helps convert your print books to e-books.

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