Well it seems that the price of textbooks in college is getting quite a bit of flak, and there are folks in the digital realm who are ready to revolutionize that industry, and seek a little revenge. That's right, digital textbooks fully linked to all sorts of sources, and fully searchable using similar tools to that which are on your Internet Browser Software and fully integrated will soon be here. In fact many universities are already starting to do this.
Of course, it's not just textbooks, digital media is quickly merging with electronic books or e-books. Many of the top authors now have e-books available, and they are selling them faster and making more money on each unit then they would on regular printed books. If you are a tree in the forest, I suppose this is good news for you. Less paper needed means fewer trees to be cut down, and I can hear the environmentalists now; "thanks to e-books we are saving the rain forest."
Indeed I'd like to take the future one step further, I see this as the last decade of fine-literature, NextGen story-telling will be full multi-media + immersion. Folks wish to be entertained, they like playing online video games, they like surfing the net, they love interactive websites, and isn't online social networking with viral videos, pictures, music, blogs, and e-books a multimedia making story merging virtual reality with the real world in the making?
It also seems with this fast-paced digital world that folks are finding their attention span severely limited these days. Eventually no one will want to sit down to read; "Gone with the Wind," as if anyone ever did wish to read such an ass-flatener, the movie is long enough as it is. And surely no one will have the time to write such an epic novel, or even care to, as no one would buy it anyway. No one has the time, or the inclination, the world is changing and society along with it.
When I talk to teachers, especially English teachers they just shake their heads over the amount of hieroglyphic text messaging and slang being used in the essays and papers that their students are turning in. Our rapid pace electronic society is changing the way people think, take in information, and also distribute their own. Very soon people will wish to be entertained at the highest degree possible in a multimedia immersion motif. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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