The Future of Books

What is it about books that are so appealing? Is it the feeling one gets from turning the pages or is this something unexplainable?

These are the questions that I struggle with when thinking of books. In the modern age books are going through a moment of transition. With the invention of e-books, literature isn’t just bound to hard copy. Any ordinary citizen can purchase a copy of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemmingway, for example within seconds.

This is the root of the problem for the protectors of hard-copy books. It is changing the standard that has been unchanged for centuries. It forces people to rethink the whole idea of books.

In my opinion, e-books just represent another change in our society. We are gradually seeing a transition of technology taking over many facets of our life. Newspapers are facing similar problems in the 21^st century. People are starting to gradually prefer non-physical copies of books when reading. Less and less people read newspapers in hard copy and instead choose to go to websites to gather news.

This is the gradual transition that will need to take place among books. As technology continues to evolve we will see e-books become more common and physical copies will become less common