E-Readers

Green Eggs and Ham, The Bible, Nicholas Sparks's novels, textbooks, cookbooks, magazines, and newspapers physically might be a tangible item of the past. These books will still exist but they will be in a digital format. Students will no longer have fifty pound book bags stocked full of five or six two-hundred page textbooks. They will have an e-reader. This e-reader will consolodate all their textbooks into one easy to carry digital device.

When e-readers were first put on the electronics radar they were very expensive (Dignan, 2010). This is typical for new technology. Article reports are guesstimating that e-reader sales will soar when they enter the $150 price point (Dignan, 2010). I was just given a Nook Color for my birthday in June. I know that my husband paid $250 for it. I am totally satisfied with this present even at that price.

E-readers can replace your daily subscription to your local newspaper and can even open your current events to other locations newspapers, national papers, and specialized papers (i.e. USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc.). Magazines that you will receive in the mail can be a thing of the past. You can download them each month straight to your e-reader. These e-readers also have the capability of reading to your children their favorite children's books. This is definetly a sign of the times. Parents in our culture have less time to spend reading their children to sleep. This device fills the absence of the parental nightly ritual.

E-readers are kind of like Nascar. Each of the popular e-readers has sponsors. The Nook is sponsored by Barnes and Nobles. The Kindle, Amazon. The iPad, Apple. The generic product market has even gotten on the e-reader band wagon. You can find knock off brands that claim to deliver the same product but remember, you get what you pay for. E-reader sponsors have partnered with wireless carriers in order to give their customers the ability to download with and without WiFi connections. WiFi is also an artifact in our current popular culture.

During a survey of households it was determined that 12% of them possess an e-reader (Willington, 2011). This is an increase by three times since last year (Willington, 2011). It is obvious in our culture the more mobile a device the better society likes them (Willington, 2011). This is a direct reflection of our on-the-go culture. Our working class society never sits still; even our stay at home moms can use e-readers in the line at the grocery store. I think the e-readers will develop to represent the technological advances of the future but they are here to stay.