2月2日（火）快晴
友人が雑誌を4冊送ってくれました。日本の雑誌は久し振りです。写真やチャートが多くて読みやすい。しかし4冊とも大衆受けする当たり障りのない記事の羅列。活字離れ、出版不況にデジタル化が追い打ちをかけ雑誌社は風前の灯。電子辞書が辞書を駆逐したように、ペーパーレス化は時代の流れ。新聞や文庫本や漫画は電子ブックに活路を見出すでしょうが、雑誌は閲読性に難があり展望は暗い。本屋も図書館も大きく様変わりするでしょう。
本屋と図書館
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Desperate situation of magazine houses
Tue. February 2 : fine
One of my Japanese friends sent me 4 copies of magazines. I read Japanese magazines after a long time. They are very easy to read because they have a lot of photos and charts. But all of them contain only the articles that would go down well with every reader. Because of the tendency of reading less and less the deep slump in the publishing industry and digitalization magazine houses has been in desperate situations. As electronic dictionaries have expelled dictionaries, paperless publication is trend of the times. Newspapers, paperbacks and comic books will be able to find their way in e-books, however, the prospect of magazines is poor because they are hard to be transferred into e-books. Book stores and libraries will change drastically in the future.
book stores and libraries
友人が雑誌を4冊送ってくれました。日本の雑誌は久し振りです。写真やチャートが多くて読みやすい。しかし4冊とも大衆受けする当たり障りのない記事の羅列。活字離れ、出版不況にデジタル化が追い打ちをかけ雑誌社は風前の灯。電子辞書が辞書を駆逐したように、ペーパーレス化は時代の流れ。新聞や文庫本や漫画は電子ブックに活路を見出すでしょうが、雑誌は閲読性に難があり展望は暗い。本屋も図書館も大きく様変わりするでしょう。
本屋と図書館
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Desperate situation of magazine houses
Tue. February 2 : fine
One of my Japanese friends sent me 4 copies of magazines. I read Japanese magazines after a long time. They are very easy to read because they have a lot of photos and charts. But all of them contain only the articles that would go down well with every reader. Because of the tendency of reading less and less the deep slump in the publishing industry and digitalization magazine houses has been in desperate situations. As electronic dictionaries have expelled dictionaries, paperless publication is trend of the times. Newspapers, paperbacks and comic books will be able to find their way in e-books, however, the prospect of magazines is poor because they are hard to be transferred into e-books. Book stores and libraries will change drastically in the future.
book stores and libraries
