How businesses are losing their business because of these aplliactions?
The perfect example for this could not be anthing else than iBook. It is a great application for digital book readers. Apparantly this application is only available in iphone, i touch and iPad. Ibook has bookstores which contains thousand of digital books from the latest bestselling to the favourite classic. Anyone can download the books of their choice (if applicable) either for free or cheaper in price.
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| Fig. iBook application, (digital book technology) |
This is a big challenges for the large bookstores such as DYMOCKS to sell the physical books. People who can afford iPad and iPhone would rarely prefer to buy books from these stores. Along with this a BIG Question has arisen " Can education go paperless"? May be that day is not far from us.
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| Fig : Oulook of bookstore of an iBook |
The ADVANTAGES of this application over the physical books:
- Time saving: This application let you browse the digital bookstore and get the book you want in a fraction of second while if you go to the physical bookstore you might have to struggle to find out the book
- Book never run out of stock: Since it is a digital store we never have problem to find out the digital books but we are not sure if the books are available in the physical bookstores or not.
- Introduction of paperless Education: It could lead to introduce paperless education system because physical books have been started to disappear.
- Saves Electricity and Papers: By introducing this application people are aware to saving the electricity by pring the books or papers and saves energy and papers.
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| Fig: How physical books are being replaced by digital books |
Disadvantages of ibook over physical books:
- Expensive to afford: iPhone, itouch and iPad are not easily affordable or really expensive which is a big problem for most of the people.
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| Fig: Browing a digital book in an iPad. |
References:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/apple-vs-textbook-can-education-go-paperless-117766
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=920f_dD8fJc&list=HL1337868180&feature=mh_lolz




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