Loss of Books

When we think of electronic media or electronics devices, generally we also think about what jobs are actually at risk being that both electronic media and devices are growing rapidly. For example, when we’re taking a stroll down the New York streets in 2016 how many newspaper stands do you see today? And I’m not talking about the ones that also sell snacks, just strictly newspapers now compare that to the amount we used to see when we were in elementary and middle school. Insane right? Exactly, because all we have to do is put in whatever news website we’d like to visit in the search engine and there we have options on whatever stories we want to read up on for that day or even the week. Incredible right? But what about the news stand guys? There go their jobs, and what about the people who work in the printing factories? There go their jobs as well. According to The End of the Books article, the print medium is doomed and outdated. Which I personally believe is a true claim, lets also take a look at simple things like going into a fast food place such as Mc D’s and realizing how long it’s been since we’ve seen a printed menu. As for Horrible Histories author Terry Deary, he stated libraries have been around too long and are no longer relevant. Once again, I completely agree unless youre a college student of course and we’re looking for a book for a particular class to go through. Point is, everything balls down to we don’t think about printed media unless we really have to. If not, we’re either on out smartphones in our search engines or on our laptop searching whatever it is that is relevant to us in that moment.