Now, some developed countries have put e-books and e-newspapers on the market, and the "paperless" era of mankind is coming soon.
Compared with paper, electronic media has the advantages of large capacity, small volume, fast retrieval, easy copying and preservation, and also has audio-visual functions.
The Oxford English Dictionary in Britain has 20 volumes, weighs 62 kilograms and has 60 million words. This famous book is very inconvenient to consult. Now it has been stored on a palm-sized CD. It is extremely convenient to consult, and the whole book can be searched in a few seconds. If you need to make a copy, just press a few buttons.
A single-sided CD with 14 inch (1 inch is about 2.5 cm) can store the contents of tens of thousands of books.
Someone once recorded 50 thousand famous paintings and famous photographs on a CD.
Now, you don't need many CDs to "load" information equivalent to all the books in a library.
Major newspapers in the United States and many countries have successively published electronic newspapers. It does not need paper, printing, binding, transportation and distribution. It only needs to input the text to be published into the computer according to a certain format and send it to the network, and the publishing task is completed, which can be seen by readers all over the world in an instant.
1994, there were 3 150 electronic newspapers in the United States, 7 times as many as 199 1 year. Journalists believe that electronic newspapers have strong competitiveness and huge potential market.
Nowadays, with the development of computer network, there are also online books.
1February, 997 15, Writers Publishing House cooperated with Yinghaiwei Information Communication Company to put the novel The Key, which attracted readers' attention, on the Internet. This is the first novel in China. From then on, users of the global Internet can read China's contemporary novels on their own computers.
In late February, 1997, Shenzhen Haitian Publishing House also published this writer's novel on the Internet.
Shanghai Gundam's photography collection "The Bund Tonight" was published in the online magazine "Window of Shanghai".
Meanwhile, people have a soft spot for online reading.
Online reading has many advantages:
First, there are no national boundaries here, and books all over the world are your reading objects.
Second, it saves a lot of troubles such as buying books, storing books, searching books, handling and mailing.
Third, the speed of consultation and use is very fast, which is unmatched by traditional methods.
Fourthly, the emerging multimedia mode, which integrates images, sounds and words, can improve reading interest, reduce reading burden and make abstract concepts and things vivid and concrete.