A main reason why people are abandoning print sources is time. With technology making everything faster these days, people operate faster. The internet offers information and resources faster than any form of paper. Less and less people are finding the time to sit down and read a good book or flip through a paper. We are more flexible and no longer settle for the morning paper or that monthly magazine.
When the radio came in the early 1930s, everybody felt that newspapers would become obsolete. When television came in the 1950s, people and even experts felt that nobody would get the time for or feel the attraction of the written word. But everyone was wrong. Each media has managed to create its own time and space across cultures and around the world. However, the print media too, be it the newspapers or books, has been able to hold its own.
Print will never completely die. We, as humans, love to hold physical things in our hands. Sure some publications may die out, and lots of advertising might be going digital, but we will always need print media one way or another.
If you actually think about how much mail and magazines are out there in todays world it’s clear evidence that print is not dying, its just changing.
That’s a really good point! Print is not going to die out, like none of the media did in the past century, everything might be changing, but not dying out. “we, as humans, love to hold physical things in our hands!” – that sure is right!
I totally agree with the statment that people like holding and touchings things in their hands. I mean for example I am one of he rare persosons that still likes to put photos in an album. Most of my friends are satisfied with having pictures on their computers, but I really like to have them in my hands anf feel them physicaly
Because I have a feeling that otherwise memories are lost forever.