Research1

Sources from : http://mashable.com/2013/01/16/e-books-vs-print/

Why paper book will never die?=THE ATTRACTIVE POINTS OF PAPER BOOK

1.Books have physical beauty.

When we see books around us, there are various kind of book cover. Some are thick and hard and some are thin and soft with flexibility. The cover of books plays a big role in making people to read book. It's one of the strategy to be selected among all the books on the bookshelves. By using its role and feature,these days, authors start to put an embossing effect on the cover for blind people. Like this, it's the things that the only we can do with printed books.

 In addition, we touch both front and back side of the book when we are reading. How it i

2.Books have provenance.

3.Printed books are collectible.

First draft

This year, an American business magazine 'Forbes' was disposed of its asset by Honkong investment company 'IWM'. Forbes mentioned the reason of disposal as the decrease of readers and printed media. Current media face the crisis of paper sources, and then start to find a way to maintain and survive among the flows of internet technology. As we can see, newspapers, magazines and even small medias start to be replaced by mobile technology. 

Until now, journalism has been printed on paper like newspaper, magazine etc. However, this 21 century, with appearance of smart devices and technology, people prefer internet media than "costly and less portable" paper media. While some people are saying that it's the end of paper media, paper media will never die in the middle of smart age.

Especially, the book market is largely depend on paper until now. However, that digital technology is trying to 

The future of e-book : Jason Merkoski( a developer of Amazon's E-book 'Kindle')

According to Jason Merkoski who is a developer of Amazon's E-book system 'Kindle', paper books in every house will be disappeared in 2020. /kindle/

- It contributes on the save of trees. Thousands acre of tropical rain forest  are logged for production of paper.

Expected Reputations for my argument

Article-Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation
A new study which found that readers using a Kindle were "significantly" worse than paperback readers at recalling when events occurred in a mystery story is part of major new Europe-wide research looking at the impact of digitisation on the reading experience.
The study, presented in Italy at a conference last month and set to be published as a paper, gave 50 readers the same short story by Elizabeth George to read. Half read the 28-page story on a Kindle, and half in a paperback, with readers then tested on aspects of the story including objects, characters and settings.

5 Ways That Paper Books Are Better Than eBooks
http://readwrite.com/2010/08/10/5_ways_that_paper_books_are_better_than_ebooks
1. Feel
2. Packaging
3. Sharing
4. Keeping
5. Second-Hand Book

Classical argument outline

1. The introduction
Until now, journalism has been printed on paper like newspaper, magazine etc. However, this 21 century, with appearance of smart devices and technology, people prefer internet media than "costly and less portable" paper media. While some people are saying that it's the end of paper media, paper media will never die in the middle of smart age.

2. The narration
I will explain market tendency like -(This year, an American business magazine 'Forbes' was disposed of its asset by Honkong investment company 'IWM'. Forbes mentioned the reason of disposal as the decrease of readers and printed media. Current media face the crisis of paper sources, and then start to find a way to maintain and survive among the flows of internet technology. As we can see, newspapers, magazines and even small medias is being replaced by mobile technology. ) and then make some relations with my thesis so that i can start my arguements directly.

3. The confirmation
I will start by examining attractive points of paper book. Then, I will examine the conditions and qualify of form of future and how perfectly paper book is appropriate for it. I will remind people new life attitude toward IT technology. Especially, i will focus on human aspects with paper book.

4. The refutation and concession, 
I will concede that there are attracting features of e-book, but those features can be disadvantages inversely. 
I will use studies and survey.At the end of it, for emphasizing my arguement, I will suggest greatness of paper seen through its role in history and its sustainability.

5. The summation

I will close with a summary of my previous points, then i will suggest a way to enjoy paper book in order to make people remind and miss the past time that they had spent with paper book.

Articulation

1) My argument 
I want to argue that Paper book will never die in the middle age of smart age. Through the growth of using internet and smart devices, popularity of paper media is on the decrease. In other words, paper media face the critical danger throughout its media domination. However, despite

2) How I found my argument 
My research questions were How much attention E-book system taken until now?, What is better points and worse points of E-book(compared to papaer book)? and How can paper book survive in the market?. For the first one, the degree of its popularity is important because it is related to possibility of E-book system's settlement. The second one, i have to know E-book's point of each side and find arguments or refutation on it . The third, last is for its strategy. Altough E-book is better at every points thatn paper, appropriate strategy for marketing and communication with consumer is required necessarily because it can affect larglely on consumers.

3) New research questions 
Things for research
-E-BOOK market
-opinion of paper book publishers

Research Proposal

Research Proposal

1.What are my current topic? 

Through the growth of using internet and smart devices, popularity of paper media is on the decrease. However, inspite of this world trend, Paper book will never die in the middle of Smart age.

2.What are my guiding questions?

*The examples of 'The fall of paper media' : Forbes, low rate of subscription of newspaper. 

*The appearance of internet media and its domination

3.What are my current thoughts?

Paper media will still exist with its own popularity

Because of:

1.The irreplaceable advantages of paper

2.The sapidity of paper that has been inherited for centuries

Seen through ' Innovative Workshop for Digital Media by NYT', we can find that the major media enterprise recognized the crisis of original paper form and then took the first step for innovation of media.(from paper to digital) This big event gives us the consideration about futer

 

4.What is the opposition?

1. The future of e-book : Jason Merkoski( a developer of Amazon's E-book 'Kindle')
According to Jason Merkoski who is a developer of Amazon's E-book system 'Kindle', paper books in every house will be disappeared in 2020. /kindle/
- It contributes on the save of trees. Thousands acre of tropical rain forest  are logged for production of paper.

2. More effective and creative ways of expression is possible if we use digital media. By utilizing various visual media, even auditory media, we can deliver vivid, easy-understanding information in much more effective way.

ex)  SNOWFALL-NYT

 

Brainstorming

<Information and Power>
Topic: Will paper media be extincted?
-Paper media : Newspaper, Magazine, book...
-subscriber of newspaper is on the decrease.
-Growing concerns: about What If Paper Media is extincted because the internet media seizes media market in the end.
-These days, people read 'E-book'(smart devices:tablets, smartphones, pc) instead of paper book. E-book is more cheaper than paper book and it is able to contain many several books but even much lighter than carrying the same several paper books. Also, e-book has no worry about getting dirty and hence it is permanent.
-Forbes was disposed by sale. The reason: financial problems