As the invention of iPad (Apple Inc.) and tablet PCs appeared in the market today, e-books has become one of the trends which also arise that pace with the development of these advanced technologies. Instead of selling printed books that costs higher price, many organizations chose to transform these printed books into e-books that are more cost-savings, environmental friendly, updated and also easy viewing through those electronic gadgets (Capeloto 2011). For example, Amazon.com and MPHonline.com.
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However, as a student, I’m still preferred printed textbooks as I can have my own handwriting towards the key points that I intend to drop down. However, as authors and journalists need time to form their ideas and prepare for publishing, the information of these publishers might have been outdated during preparation as the progress of information updated is running fast in the world today (Harris2010).
Somehow, even the old information probably still useful in some respects, however, when new information comes in, the printed publishing might lack of time or just in time to publish when that particular information started outdated; Thus, misleading in others (Cameron & Richardson 2011), or they might have to search again for the latest news throughout other resources such as Google.com.
Targeted the people who are more prefer printed textbook like me, since it is the electronic gadget era, iAnnotate application was then created that provided markup tools such as highlighting, underlining, bookmarking, free form drawing and note-taking, which can be use on iPad (Bush & Cameron 2011, p.57). As it’s a nature of human that always pursuit of new thing, it is more encourage for most of the people to use the electronic gadgets to update their information and knowledge quickly instead of looking forward for printing publication.
Ultimately, in order to catch up the latest information, students are more likely encouraged to own themselves tablet devices that provided multi-modal functionality to support their personal studies and classroom learning (Bush & Cameron 2011, p.134).
References
1. Bush, M.H. & Cameron, A.H. 2011, ‘Digital Course Materials: A Case Study of the Apple iPad in the Academic Environment’, UMI, Dissertation Publishing, [online], Available at: <http://gradworks.umi.com/3457459.pdf>, [Accessed on 14th November 2011].
2. Cameron, S. & Richardson, S. 2011, ‘Evaluating historical information on the web’, skills4study.com, [online], Available at: <http://www.palgrave.com/skills4study/subjectareas/history/evaluating.asp>, [Accessed on 14th November 2011].
3. Capeloto, A. 2011, ‘How e-Textbooks, Online Modules Could Keep Journalism Education Current’, MEDIASHIFT, [online], Available at: <http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/08/how-e-textbooks-online-modules-could-keep-journalism-education-current237.html>, [Accessed on 14th November 2011].
4. Harris, R. 2010, ‘Evaluating Internet Research Sources’, VirtualSalt.com, [online], Available at: <http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm>, [Accessed on 14th November 2011].
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