Books vs E-Books

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Good afternoon adjudicators and fellow debaters, I am the second speaker of the proposition team. The moot for todays debate is “textbooks should be used in the form of eBooks in Hong Kong” which they most definitely should. This house believes that textbooks should be used in the form of eBooks because First of, I would like to offer some rebuttals to the affirmative team... Ladies and gentlemen, we do not care about the design of a textbook or how it looks on a shelve, all we care about, and what is most important, in the content of the book. E-books take up no space in warehouses and require no shipping because they have no physical presence and no unnecessary raw materials are used therefore they are sold in much lower prices compared printed textbooks. The ‘no shipping’ aspect leads to the idea of school textbooks being, not only cheaper and affordable, but readily available to the students of Hong Kong; EDUCATION, ladies and gentlemen, will be more readily available and affordable. And of course, the wonderful thing about eBooks, ladies and gentlemen, is that it takes up virtually no room, in both a physical and digital sense. Students in Hong Kong will be able to walk around with their textbooks in a compact, portable digital device without the hassle of having a heavy school bag. This therefore creates an immense amount of convenience to the student. Also ladies and gentlemen, statistics show that the carbon emissions required to make 40 to 50 books are equivalent to the carbon emissions to make one eReader. This shows that eBooks ARE in fact more environmentally friendly as an eReader can hold hundreds of eBooks. And as i have mentioned before, raw materials such as paper are not needed to make eBooks. You do not have to cut down a few trees just to make one book, and lets not even talk about the ink. Recycling, ladies and gentlemen, can

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