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Many people believe that e-books will never replace the role of printed media like books, newspapers and magazines. Do you agree or disagree?

#people #e-books #role #media #books #newspapers #magazines
As the usage of
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smartphone
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smartphones
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 has significantly skyrocketed during the past decade,
online
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medium
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media
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 has gained
its
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clout and is now dominating the news industry.
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Newspaper
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 used to be the most
favorable
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 method to seize
information
 and it was common to see businessmen reading
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the newspaper
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newspaper
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 on a crowded train before the
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reigned.
Under
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this
 digitalized era, is it necessary for us to read
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the newspaper
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newspaper
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newspapers
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? I believe that there the role of
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the newspaper
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 today has been less important and should be substituted with
digital
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the digital
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 medium. The following paragraphs contain my opinion about why I believe
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 is not useful as it was decades ago.
First
, I believe that the lack of convenience explains the unimportance of
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newspapers
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. To copy a single fold of
newspaper
,
newspaper
 companies need to buy
a
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paper to print down the content, deliver the paper to each shop or customer, and
then
 recollect it in terms of recycling. Not only that
this
 process is not eco-friendly, but
also
 there are
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 of hard work to do for letting the customer purchase the
newspaper
.
On the other hand
, news on
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a smartphone
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smartphone
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smartphones
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 can easily be sent to customers by just clicking the send button and can easily be modified afterwards in case there was
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information
.
Secondly
, since it takes a day until each customer reads the news, some
information
 might be useless. Japan’s most popular
sports
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 today is baseball, and every night at 10pm there is a tv program called “Sports Navi” that highlights all the pro baseball matches. Every score of the game held in Japan and interviews are revealed during
this
 program and similar content can be found on a related sports media page. It would be
such
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 neck if the same content is going to appear in the morning
newspaper
, which many businessmen would want to read while eating breakfast.
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 these two reasons, I believe that
newspaper
 today does not have an important role in
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society.
However
, since more than
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 of the population in Japan is above 60 years old, I am assuming that there are still many elderly people who have not adapted yet to achieve
information
 via
smartphone
. I believe that the
newspaper
 industry will not be dominant as it was several decades ago but still co-exists with the digital medium due to its few demands.
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