Another cause could be that those books can be found elsewhere online for cheaper. The University store was forced to keep the price of the textbooks the same, but as time went on, the price became cheaper on different online websites. PROCEDURES TO IMPROVE STORE’S OBSOLESCENCE PROBLEM First off, the University store has to be mindful of the demand for these textbooks. There is no need to order hundreds of extra books without knowing for sure if they are going to sell out or not. They must instead order a small number of books and see how students react to it.
Also Technology has offered us so many advantages to finding, buying, downloading, and reading books anytime, and anywhere. “Book” devices such as the nook, the kindle, and the i-pod offer us downloading sites for books at cheap prices so if a student can not find the specific book they are looking for they can simply go onto their device and download the book for a cheap price. The American Library Association has proven book banning has gone down at a very high percent since the release of the kindle in 2007. So then, my question is “why go through all that trouble to ban a book from a public library when you can simply just download it from the internet?” School boards should not have the ability to ban or
Nicholas Carr says, in his book, The Shallows, that because of his constant use of computers and the Internet, he has become unable to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. He can no longer read books without losing interest in them after a few short pages. He doesn’t understand things at great depth, he looks for the shallow understanding of many things. I agree with what Carr said about what using the internet and technology has done to our ability to concentrate and focus on one thing and to read a book and understand things at a deeper level. Since using the Internet, I have noticed that when I look through magazines, I LOOK through them not read them.
The benefit of the laptop is enable students to buy electronic books online and have them everywhere you go. Multitudes of electronic books are available online, which limits the need to have copies and insets from full books. This will cause lower the demand for paperback books inversely decreasing the cost for students who feel they learn better with physical books. All of these changes will sustainably decrease the cost of
The disadvantages in not being able to reach as many individuals due to lack of internet or lack of email accessibility, provides major negative impacts for research. b. Facebook: Since it is social media, people get on there for other reasons. The people that fill out the Facebook surveys actually know the products, they aren’t just completing for the free stuff, and the information doesn’t get lost in spam emails. Some disadvantages of surveys are the broad consumer base risk. There are no new consumers as part of the survey.
I’m not thinking the way that I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through the long stretches of prose (p. 67).’’ It’s an agreeable statement because there are times when you are trying to concentrate on reading an article on the computer and you get distracted from what you are reading. Opening up a new hardcover book is almost impossible for me.
Essay #4 3/31/14 Cause and Effect A book is something that might be taken for granted, due to the Internet and computers. Some people do not have patience to read books fully and they either use the Internet or just skim through books. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr is a novel that explains some of the things that have helped reading to evolve. Many things like the printing press, books, maps, the typewriter, the Internet, and the Greek alphabet have helped reading to evolve. The printing press is what caused books to become popular.
Most people find reading books easier so don’t some people like me because I prefer researching on the internet to searching for stuff in the library. Some people will support Carr by saying that the internet really makes us dumber but I’m on the opposite side because I defiantly think it makes as smarter especially with this technology that keeps improving as years come. All these things we have today and are able to access to will not be available without the internet because people or researchers wouldn’t have been able to get accurate information about what they were looking
His primary arguments seemed to be examples of his own difficulties. He states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy…That’s rarely the case anymore.” He continues to write of how his mind starts to wander after a few pages, and he looks for something else to do; reading has become a struggle. Carr says the culprit is the Internet itself, basing his accusation on how in today’s society we can obtain information after just a few minutes on the Net. The media today has started to give us information in as limited amount of words they can allow, so we as users can skim the information we desire then move onto the next sliver of info. He believes our minds have been altered to expect all information the way the Net hands it out: “in a swiftly stream of moving particles,” as he put it.
In earlier times if you wanted to | | |research something you needed to go to a library to find the information. This is | | |uncommon in today’s society. You no longer need to rent or purchase physical books, as | | |they are available online or downloaded to electronic devices. Billboards are another | | |form of media that has grown and changed. They once were expensive to utilize and there | | |were limited numbers of them.