The digital development in the 21th century brought the crisis of printed media. The stagnation and reduction of newspaper print run and the development of various media have resulted the drop of advertisement share and the subscribers who prefer inte...
The digital development in the 21th century brought the crisis of printed media. The stagnation and reduction of newspaper print run and the development of various media have resulted the drop of advertisement share and the subscribers who prefer internet newspaper or video to printed newspaper make the position of printed media get threatened gradually.
That’s because the printed media can’t catch up the mass information and fast ripple effect while various digital platform based on internet have been emerged.
This digital development has significantly influenced the market of paper book. As each individual owns various devices such as smart phone, tablet PC, listening to music, news searching and video contents watching through smart phone became the daily routine. The readers who used to visit book stores to search new books can get the information of book easily through smart phone, PC, the story, the reader’s comment can be searched easily. The era was arrived when you can figure out the contents of books without visiting book stores and buying paper books, you can buy e-books to read only with finger touch.
But a book is not made for the purpose to deliver only the stories of book. In other words, the book can’t be made of only stories written by writers. In order to make a single book created, many factors such as the title, the table of contents and introduction are required other than the stories of writers, such factors are made to the book with totally different look after passing the hands of book designers. The book made by this process will provide more experience, emotion and meaning beyond the function to deliver the contents of book written by writers to readers. Such is the power of paper book which can attract the readers to search paper books despite of convenience that e-books and various digital platforms.
Also paper books have recorded and created the history of 5,000 years, brought the world where we live in now. The history of book is the history of our civilization, the fruit of mankind which enabled art, culture and knowledge. Because of these reasons, we should never let the paper books that brought the history of mankind disappear if any new media threatening paper books will be emerged by the development of digital.
This study researched the development measure of paper book which can compete with the convenience and new functions of e-books, and the way to attract readers who are turning their eyes to e-book to paper books again.
Accordingly, we learned the change flow of the way to read books and the understanding of books through this consideration, researched how the factors existed in books have been development in this historical flow. Through this, we can figure out the elements composing books through this, confirmed the composition factors of books which have been developed according to the flow of era and have been newly emerged.
Also we found various and attractive contents only owned by paper book owned only by paper books through the comparison and analysis between paper books and e-books, researched the plan in which the technological factors can be applied and developed in paper books.
As a result, we can find the limitation of e-books in the essential view of book through the classification and analysis of paper books and e-books, the merit and demerit of paper books and e-books, on the contrary overcame the limitation and drew the merit and demerit owned by paper book that e-book can’t catch up. One step further, we found one among countermeasures which can form, expand and advance the continuous development from ‘five senses’ that human feels. Through this we can find that paper books have the possibility of more various expression and development than e-books, more than 2 senses among ‘five senses’ are gathered and transferred to other sense, which can result the development of emotion and experience of readers. We confirmed that such a transfer of sense can create bigger communion between readers and writer through paper book, can produce in-depth thinking and creativity, can create various experience.