I am not a fan of the Kindle. Yes I can see how beneficial it is, if for example you are travelling and need a few books to keep you going. However, I like the physical aspects of having a book. I can bend the pages and make notes or put post-it notes on interesting bits. I even like the smell of second hand books. Does that make me weird?
However, on the BBC Business News website there is this article here:
“Sales of printed books fell by almost £74m in the UK last year, according to data from Nielsen BookScan. In total, readers spent £1.514bn on physical books in 2012, down 4.6% from 2011.
The rate of decline slowed slightly, principally because of EL James' Fifty Shades trilogy, which accounted for one in every 20 books bought last year. E-books continued to be popular, accounting for 13-14% of book sales.”
So in the near future will everyone be going to an eReader? If so I will mourn the paper copy. It may well save the trees though and that may end up being a selling point. But generations of children will not have the same experiences as we did when thumbing through a book we loved.
Mind you a Kindle or eReader may help cure me of my silly habit of going to the last few pages of a book if it is fiction, and reading the ending first. I have lost count of how many times I have done that.
