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.
