Media has had a huge impact on the way we interrupt everything in our society. Many people believe that literary reading has been lost over time. Throughout time research has been done to find out why this problem has occurred. The age that research has been focused on is ages 18-24 because they would be more educated to read literary books. After some research has been done, they have found that young adults are more prone to electronic reading rather than hardcover because of the generation we are in. Over the years by watching my generation and seeing that we watch television more than reading a book is because of how our world is constantly changing with technology. Books were first brought to our era by papyrus scrolls. Papyrus scrolls were made by ancient egyptians out of tall reeds that were gathered in the nile valley. Papyrus scrolls were put together usually glued and were often 30 feet long. During the middle ages next came the cortex it became the next advancement made out of parchment paper. The reason for the cortex was because they were more durable to use. The invention of the mechanical type books changed how media was passed along. The gutenberg revolution made books less expensive and easier to distribute. To see the advancements that our world has made in a short period of time is astonishing. To go from paper bound books to limitless information right at our fingertips. I lastly found the blockbuster syndrome particularly interesting. The media focuses the majority of their attention on the authors receiving high praise from publishers. Authors can receive a major advance or royalty depending on the status of the writer.

Massive corruptions such as Google and Amazon have been colliding with writers over copyright and other property laws. Google was accused of downloading millions of books with unclear status laws. This move by Google was deteriorating the sales and revenue to writers and publishers. Amazon made a similar move when they created the Kindle. Amazon’s price for the Kindle was incredible low but hoped it would draw readers into e-books. This would then force the price of e-books to be much lower than a hard copy. The lack of control publishers had over marketing became a huge outcry and complaint. Several publishers eventually forced Amazon to return the control of e-book pricing. The access to digital libraries gave people the opportunity to read and download millions of different versions of books. At one point google tried to digitize there books to make profit from the content being sold. There are policies and rules that these online readings have to follow, the open book alliance soon found out google was copyrighting all of their content and selling it.

The transformation of hard copy books to electronic forms of reading such as e-books has shifted the way we interpret information on any given day. Many statistics shows “One out of four American adults did not read a single book in any format in 2012″(Streep paragraph 1). By seeing these statics it shows how our generation has moved towards. We start to realize is the reason people aren’t reading anymore because of technology?