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People are losing their Trust in e-books

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Those days are gone when people used to spend hours in libraries or the gardens to read their favorite books&period; I also remember those days when people used to carry an extra bag just for the books whenever they <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;category&sol;tour-travel&sol;">travel either by the road&comma; by train or by air<&sol;a>&period; But the technology also made its impact on the hobby of book reading and gave us a new method of reading through e-books&period; Just like the custom coursework writing services&comma; people didn’t accept this <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;category&sol;technology&sol;">technology<&sol;a> in its early days&comma; and the hardcore book readers and writers oppose this new technology very strongly&period; But with every passing day&comma; people started accepting this and started showing their trust on the e-books&period; From 2010 to 2015&comma; e-books were at their peak&comma; but just like every high has an equal&comma; measurable low&comma; from the past two years&comma; the lack of trust on e-books has started creeping up because of the following reasons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- 640&ast;300 --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 640px&semi; height&colon; 300px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"3360826687"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Comparison&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Although printed books are still the thing of past and every writer focused on selling his book online&comma; people are finding printed books more straightforward as compared to the eBooks&period; Sense has been developing in the readers from past two years that by buying printed books&comma; they are the sole owner of it and once you bought it from any book store&comma; books fare or even bought it from online stores like <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;amzn&period;to&sol;2n4bEKp" rel&equals;"nofollow">Amazon<&sol;a>&period; The book that you buy from them is entirely your property&comma; and no one can take it away from you&period; Whereas eBooks are very convoluted and even some readers have started calling it the nightmares of the book readers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Policies&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Another reason for losing trust on eBooks is the sense of lack of ownership&period; When you purchase an e-book from the online stores like Amazon and Apple&comma; you don’t actually buy it&semi; you are getting it on lease from the owner website for an undefined period&period; Your lease can be canceled anytime if you break any law or terms of the seller or retailer and they will take the book back immediately&period; Even if you doesn’t make any mistake&comma; you can still lose your book if the retailer goes bankrupt or the retailer violates any term of the writer or publisher&period; This also makes the reader’s hustle to read the book as quick as possible that kills the entire feel of reading&period; Printed books&comma; on the other hand&comma; doesn’t bound you in time nor any policies&period; You just have to pay for the printed book&comma; and it is yours for your entire life&period; Now it is in your will to read it in a year or pass it to your friend after reading it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Daunting Precisions&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you read the precisions of the online bookstores&comma; you will be frightened by the words that they use&period; Their words make you feel that you are not buying any book but any pill which have the tendency to damage human life&period; Its look likes that they hired an army of lawyers&comma; especially to designed all the terms and conditions&period; These conditions create a very negative impact on the veteran readers that they started buying printed books instead of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;E-book">eBooks<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; printed books also have some copyrights notice that is very simple and on point&period; Their notice claims &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>No portion of this book may be copied&comma; reproduced&comma; or transmitted in any form or by any means&comma; electronic or otherwise&comma; including recording&comma; photocopying&comma; or inclusion in any information storage and retrieval system&comma; without the express written permission of the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;author&sol;hardikpatel-enggmail-com&sol;">publisher and author<&sol;a>&comma; except for brief excerpts quoted in published reviews<&sol;em>”&period; These are not those things that any reader is not aware of&period; These precisions are only to save the books from piracy so that the writer can get the rewards of his efforts&period; The readers understand it and show respect for it too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Setbacks&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">When the Sony Reader Store first closed followed by Diesel e-Books&comma; Txtr and many other eBook stores&comma; the people get deprived of their eBook collections that agonized the readers a lot&period; Those books were their life&comma; and they still remember the day when they woke up and see the notice of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Sorry We Are Closed<&sol;em>” sign on their eBook website&period; It is not like that they cannot go to any other e-book store but the time that they had spent in collecting their favorite books were just wasted due to these online stores&period; That was the time when the sense of mistrust on the online stores and e-books were triggered among the readers which is still increasing at a rapid pace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Amazon VS the World&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript" language&equals;"javascript">&NewLine; var aax&lowbar;size&equals;'728x90'&semi;&NewLine; var aax&lowbar;pubname &equals; 'nefopualnewhy-21'&semi;&NewLine; var aax&lowbar;src&equals;'302'&semi;&NewLine; <&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There is no doubt in it that <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;amzn&period;to&sol;2n4bEKp" rel&equals;"nofollow"><strong>Amazon is the world’s biggest online store to buy anything<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period; And being the biggest&comma; he asks liabilities too with his vendors&period; This is where publishers and Amazon are conflicting&period; There are many things that publishers wants from Amazon to ensure&period; But when Amazon failed to meet it&comma; then the publisher revert his products that don&&num;8217&semi;t do any effect on the Amazon&comma; but the person who has it in his bucket get deprived of an excellent book&period; This drama between the Amazon and World publishers is costing the image of e-books a lot and making easier for people to buy printed books instead of e-books&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Some Stats&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Just to give you an idea of how dangerous the situation is for the e-books&comma; I am going to share some facts of reputable online stores about the sales of e-books in past couple of years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Every hardcore reader knows about <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nielsenbookscan&period;co&period;uk&sol;" rel&equals;"nofollow">Nielson BookScan<&sol;a>&comma; which is a body that tracks what the readers are buying&comma; issued a number in 2015 regarding the increase of sale printed books that went up to 2&period;5&percnt;&period; This additional 2&period;5 &percnt; readers were the former e-books readers but decided to move towards the printed books&period; Since then this number has crossed 6&percnt;&comma; and the scanner is expecting it to increase more with the faster pace in next couple of years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Final Words&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The blessing in disguise of the fall of eBooks is that people are not turning away from the reading&period; They are still finding ways to fulfill their addiction of reading either from the technical way or from the traditional way&period; The downfall and lack of trust of people from the people towards eBook may affect the book industry&comma; but there are many hopes and options for the remaining eBooks stores which they are considering very seriously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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