Is print culture dying?

[kittu]

Could anyone please evaluate my essay?

Is print culture dying?

My answer:

Print culture is dying rapidly. The main reason for it is the use of electronic good for the academic and non-academic purposes.

In the olden days, people used to rely upon the print for both their entertainment and information. They used to read newspapers for getting the affairs of their states, countries and the world. They used to read fiction for pleasure as well as for knowledge. Hence, before the invention of electricity in general and the invention of radio, television and computer in particular, the print culture bloomed at its fullest.

The first thunder bolt upon the print culture is radio. Some readers of newspaper and some of fiction shifted to it for their respective purposes. It is a little bit easier to listen to radio than to read a book. While they were working, they could listen to it. Slowly, many a people migrated to it.

The second and most destructive strike in terms of the print is the television. With it, some more readers were dragged. It charmed all the people. The people who depended upon the print for the current affairs were provided with the visual treat of the same information, the readers of pleasure-seeking with the fictional movies and soap operas. So, it had a more disastrous effect upon the print.

Even in the sphere of academics, the latest technology of computers has decreased the use of the print. So many e-books can be stored in it and can be read wherever the readers want to read from. That finding of certain things in e-books are easier than that of the print diminished the use of the print.

Internet is a great source for both the academic and non-academic purposes. With a single mouse click, the reader can get unbelievable amount of information whereas, in print, he has to labor a lot for the same end. It saves his/ her time. It has, further, reduced the importance of the print.

The ultra-modern invention such as Notebook, the mobile phones which have the compatibility of PDF reader is the final blow upon the print. By them, the reader can have a very light weighted electronic good that can store a lot of books and reading of those books is easier as there is no need of turning the pages. A large number of books an be downloaded at free cost. A whole range of printed library is now in a single slate-like good.

Although all these inventions have reduced the wider usage of the print, they are unable to remove the print entirely. The reasons for it are: the much use of these electronic goods- Television, Computer, Note Book, Mobile Phone etc – strain the readers’ eyes; as they provide all kinds of useful and non-useful information without any discrimination, there are many chances to distract form the main pursuit. The use of the news papers and the purchases of the good novels in the print version promises that one day the print culture, surely, grows slowly but firmly like the mythical bird which is repeatedly born from its ashes whenever it dies.

[kittu]

I request you to reply to my essay.

[Logik]

short & nice.
i liked it.

[kittu]

Hi Logik,

Thank you. If you point out any mistakes, I can improve my writing skill.

I hope you will do it.

[Raja Desingh]

I like printed books.

[zippy]

Dyeing is totally different from printing.

See this link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyeing

[Katapilah]

I'll sort of proofread it for you later Kittu, if that is what you mean by pointing out mistakes. But, from your tone, it's kind of mourning the dying of print culture. Do you really feel it is such a bad thing? Why do you feel so? The essay does not answer that. It tells why it's dying but also takes a stance like that was a really sad thing to happen. I personally see nothing really negative about that. I also don't agree with the phoenix analogy. Print culture is dying and it is more or less going to be an irreversible process.

I like printed books, I like it much more than reading books on any gadget. And many people do. But that's just because habits are hard to break. The good old printed book somehow feels reassuring. However, children who are introduced to ebooks quite early, who get all the information and news from the internet and are already in the habit of spending more time with gadgets than with books, won't cry about the dying of print culture and eventually nobody is going to care much if it lives or dies. If we have good enough sources of mass communication and information and even those are being improved upon, how and why would there ever be a need for the print culture to rise like a phoenix. In some sci-fi scenario(or something like The Book of Eli thing), maybe, but I don't think it's likely.

[Madras Mami]

Don't forget that it is also eco- friendly. We want to do away with paper for saving trees.Why else are we getting all account statements, bills etc by email?? It is better to let print culture die if we can save the environment.