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

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smartphone
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has significantly skyrocketed during the past decade,
online
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medium
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has gained
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clout and is now dominating the news industry.
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used to be the most
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method to seize
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and it was common to see businessmen reading
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the newspaper
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on a crowded train before the
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reigned.
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digitalized era, is it necessary for us to read
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newspaper
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? I believe that there the role of
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today has been less important and should be substituted with
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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.
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, I believe that the lack of convenience explains the unimportance of
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. To copy a single fold of
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,
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companies need to buy
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paper to print down the content, deliver the paper to each shop or customer, and
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recollect it in terms of recycling. Not only that
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process is not eco-friendly, but
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of hard work to do for letting the customer purchase the
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.
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, news on
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a smartphone
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smartphone
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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
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.
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, since it takes a day until each customer reads the news, some
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might be useless. Japan’s most popular
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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
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program and similar content can be found on a related sports media page. It would be
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neck if the same content is going to appear in the morning
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, which many businessmen would want to read while eating breakfast.
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these two reasons, I believe that
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today does not have an important role in
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society.
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, 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
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via
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. I believe that the
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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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