In recent years, more and more people are choosing to read ebooks rather than paper books.
Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
For sometime now, the number of individuals who prefer to read ebook is increasing rapidly, whereas that of paper book is declining. Although this development has its adverse effect, the visible results of the beneficial effect are more.
The negative effect of ebook is a drop in sales of paper books. In the past, authors make profit from sales of paper books, largely due to constant demand by readers, but nowadays the demand has dropped. So, as the demand drops, the sales and profit drop as well. To illustrate, the Business Day newspaper, on the 27th of February 2019, reported that Oxford publishers Nigeria, in the third quarter of 2018, made a loss of 20 million naira due to low demand.
However, one of the benefits of ebooks is mobility. Since it is stored on our devices, it can be taken to almost every location, therefore, enhances easy access. Another point to be considered is from the conservation perspective. Obviously, paper books are end-products of trees, which is a result of deforestation. That is to say, if paper books are not promoted, there would not be deforestation. This means that the increased usage of ebooks helps to protect our environment. Finally, ebooks are comfortable because they do not occupy physical space, unlike paper books.
In conclusion, even though the presence of ebook threatens business owners by reducing their profit margin, the advantages such as comfort and environmental protection cannot be ignored. For this reason, I believe that the advantages of the rise in demand of ebook outweigh its disadvantages.
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| 2019-05-31 | adeagboridwan | 61 | view |
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, so, therefore, third, well, whereas, in conclusion, such as, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1324.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 259.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11196911197 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8451223712 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.602316602317 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 411.3 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.8197189002 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.2666666667 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2666666667 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192981584243 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610873654248 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520361433126 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107405114263 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.021692802841 0.056905535591 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.0946893788 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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