英语六级阅读训练题及答案讲解.docxVIP

英语六级阅读训练题及答案讲解 There is a certain inevitability that ebook saleshave now overtaken paperback sales on AmazonsUS site. Amazons Kindle 2 is so light and so cheapthat its easy to see why people have rushed to buyit. Though Im still not keen on the design of the Kindle, it is a vast improvement on itspredecessor and certainly tolerable. Beyond the device itself, Amazon has done a great jobof rolling out Kindle apps, ensuring that people like me-who have an iPad but not a Kindle-canstill join in the fun. Once youre into the Kindle ecosystem, Amazon locks you in tightly-just asApple does with its iTunes/ iPod ecosystem. Its so easy to buy from Amazons store and thebooks are so cheap that its not worth the effort of going elsewhere. While I remain opposed to Amazons DRM 数字版权管理-indeed, Im opposed to DRM onany ebooks-I have to admit that the implementation is so smooth that most Kindle userswont care at all that their ebooks cant be moved to other devices. The ebook trend is nowhere near peaking. Over the next five years we can expect to seemore and more readers move away from printed books and pick up ebooks instead. But I dontthink that will mean the death of the printed book. There are some who prefer printed books. They like having shelves filled with books theyveread and books they plan to read; they like the feel of the book in their hands and the differentweights and typefaces and layouts of different titles. In other words, they like the physical formof the book almost as much as the words it contains. I can sympathise with those people. As I wrote earlier this week, my ideal situation would befor publishers to bundle ebooks with printed ones-in much the same way that film studiosbtmdie DVDs with digital copies of films. Theres no reason to think that lovers of printed bookswill change their minds. There will undoubtedly be fewer of them as time goes by because morepeople will grow up with ebooks and