subject: Tomorrow, We Will Read What Kind Of Book? - Books, Book Fair - Printing Industry [print this page] Today, people want to know the world what to read? So, tomorrow we read the book it look like? Beijing International Book Fair this year, the development trend of the future book gives some answers.
Vigorously promote the digital library, the Beijing International Book Fair is a feature. Reporters on the scene to see, all kinds of digital books business referral colorful. Both the history of human thought that landmark scholarly library, but also world-renowned series of military research database, the CIA and other foreign intelligence files, watching to see what people remember with the desire to explore.
Digital books into this Book Fair a big selling point is not surprising. In recent years, with the growing economic and cultural development, people use mobile phones, computers to read Electronic The book has become a common practice. According to authoritative statistics, as of the end of 2008, the National 579 book publishers are already carried out 90% of e-book publishing business, publishing e-books more than 50 kinds, with an increase of 25% in 2007; issued more than 3,000 total 10,000, revenues of 300 million yuan, an increase of 50%.
Compared with traditional paper books, e-books of the biggest advantages is that it can mass storage of data, can be a huge library microfilm in a small e-book reader, the book eliminates the traditional cumbersome. And it can enlarge or reduce the size of the text, not paper books that the disadvantages of fixed font; it enough Environmental protection Unlike paper books to consume trees. The most important thing is that in the Financial Crisis "tight money" background, download e-book to the reader is much cheaper than paper books, not to mention a large number of e-books are free, do not need to spend money. If the future of digital library development, a trend, the financial crisis may be said to be a number of books in a rare development opportunity.
Because of the emergence of digital books, and now in most cases, the same one for the book, readers can select the print media, electronic media may also, so it was to read the whole media. "Slumdog Millionaire," screened in China, some people choose to spend tens of dollars on tickets to the cinema, while others have time to soak in the line of the people chose the Internet to watch movies or read books. Some have time to patronize movie theaters or prolonged sitting in front of the computer's white-collar, select the same name novel downloaded to your phone with the go to watch. Others love the way people read the traditional books, the layout of Chinese cities in the novel the first time to the bookstore textbook, glimpse of the fast. "Slumdog Millionaire" that cut across traditional books, the Internet, handheld readers, film and other means of publication of three-dimensional, multi-channel is published in all media synchronization. In fact, with the development of digital publishing, the Internet's growth, strengthen the translation work and planning everywhere, all the media publishing is increasingly heating up and become a mainstream trend in book publishing.
At the same time, the current Beijing International Book Fair also showed that individual will become a developing trend in future books, which include " Demand Publication. "So-called" on-demand publishing "means publishing or some Print Agencies, tailored according to individual needs, and print your portfolio (such as Network Literature), images (family album), personalized graphic works (genealogy, business manuals), out of print books of print books, academic publications, professional materials. And some books in print, will people respect the book personalized decoration Design . The biggest difference between traditional publishing, the "on-demand publishing" a book too can start printing from India, highly personalized. Reporters on the Expo site to see, "on-demand publishing" booth will be gathered from time to time some people, they Some literature young, some who like trendy fashion. According to reports, "on-demand publishing" has been carried out in foreign countries about 10 years, while still in the emerging stage in China.
Walking in the colorful, various, and some are even some strange magic book or the ocean, you will be surprised the book world is so colorful, just like magic the vast ocean general. In the progress of human society, science and technology in development, the book as a carrier of human knowledge, it is constantly changing. From the traditional paper-based books, to electronic, multimedia, and the interpretation of the direction of change. Perhaps we read the book tomorrow, its shape, its material in a way, the book will be very different to today, even hard to imagine that one out today's "bible."
