and news of recent months that the great American site dedicated to selling books on-line Amazon.com (which these days has opened in Italy) has announced that portal on its sales of books in digital format for the first time surpassed those of traditional printed book format. The news has been made about whether and on many newspapers and Internet sites, journalists and bloggers have questioned how will the near future of the book and if the media, as we usually conceive it, will still be short lived. The question of whether we have arrived at the terminus of a book and began with the advent of the computer for mass use, but authoritative experts argue that these technologies will be more likely to fail to completely replace the good old book paper. There will certainly be
initiatives and forms publishing, where the new support will most fertile soil, but - always claim the experts - the real reason why books still have a long life for this format is that you have the evidence that can stand for several hundred years, while not have evidence on the actual duration of an electronic medium: just think that in these first thirty years of the first PC diskettes have been replaced by those from floppy and CD, DVD and USB-to name but a few examples of common standards and that the computer now very difficult, if not with artifice and having the good fortune to find some pieces in the electronics market, are able to read the media in the eighties. In addition a substantial difference between browse and feel to the touch and have a book in his hand a stick or some sort of phone or IPad evolved.
History teaches that in every case over the centuries, a new means of communication has never completely replaced the previous one, such as television did not eliminate the cinema and newspapers.
The Library as place dedicated to the preservation of books, will surely face in the coming years with the spread of these new media and academics in the industry are taking the first steps in laying the foundations for a possible coexistence of these forms at the time of publishing and apparently so diverse.
The great debate on the subject has obviously piqued the interest of the Library of Ceredigion, which has obtained title to some curiosity in this new format. The software is currently distributed Reading standards in trade is undeniably pleasant to be interactive, but to an eye accustomed to dealing with the press, the cold screen in Times New Roman that, page after page, running on the LCD, a first glance at least leaves open many questions about whether we are really ready for this new form of dissemination of culture. We're just beginning, we will definitely come back soon.
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