I have to write an essay (1 page) about: What is the future of books? Can you help me with some ideas?

I think there is no future of books because children hate read them.

Nowadays people are watching TV and searching on the internet.

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In the 1980s there were fears that video would kill the radio star. Today we worry whether the screen will kill the paperback and the local book store.

It's not bits - it's a book

And yet books win big as an interface medium, a comfortable place where "bits" and people meet. They look and feel great, they are usually lightweight (lighter than most laptops), relatively low cost, easy to use, quick random access, and widely available to everyone.

We can "thumb" through books, annotate and dogear their pages - even sit or stand on them when we need to be a mite taller. I once stepped on my laptop, and the result was awful.

Yet, things will have to change. The future of books has to be digital, making them even easier to get. Having it all on a screen in front of you might completely change our approach to reading.

I worry that, before long, we’ll become so used to the mindless clarity of e-ink to these screens that keep on getting better, that the technology will feedback onto the content, making us less willing to endure harder texts. We’ll forget what it’s like to consciously decipher a literate clause. And that would be a shame, because not every sentence should be easy to read.

I suspect that printed books will not disappear any more than music will disappear because of digitisation. The book as we know it will just be complemented by other forms of books which will be very different and the publishing industry will change too.

Personally, I love books. You can bring with you on a journey at least it is much easier than using an electronic equipment, not to talk about an airplane where normally you cannot use them.

And books are far more familiar as other possible methods.