Advantages of e-books over paper books With the advancement of digital technology, reading e-books is becoming more and more popular compared to traditional paper books. For example, e-books now sell better than traditional books on Amazon. Although paper books still have considerable value and have their own market niche, as evidenced by the number of books placed on the shelves of various retailers, e-books will be the trend in text publishing in the future. E-books have many obvious advantages over traditional paper books, as they are more convenient to carry, have greater update capacity, have greater storage capacity, are more accessible and environmentally friendly . This article will therefore elaborate on the benefits of e-books and provide a comparative analysis of e-books versus traditional books. As with any type of argument, there will always be pros and cons for the paper book and the e-book. Therefore, before describing the advantages of e-book and discussing how these advantages outweigh its disadvantages, for the sake of objectivity, this essay will first describe the advantages of traditional paper books, which have constituted some of the counter-arguments, and then will address these questions one by one. one and comparatively highlight the advantages of ebooks. Paper books will always have their special place, irreplaceable for certain readers, and will therefore always have their own market with its followers. The experience is always special. There are the unique qualities of paper, the feeling of weight of the paper book. Paper offers an intimacy of interaction that no other medium can offer. Moreover, for some people, reading a paper book had become one of the indispensable elements of their...... middle of paper ...... be interactive, because it can contain audio, video, animations which can all improve the reading experience (Gardiner and Musto, 2010). Increased interactivity of reading materials will improve comprehension of the content read, and therefore learning of the material (Gardiner and Musto, 2010). To conclude, e-books have many distinctive advantages over traditional paper books as shown -books are lightweight, portable and therefore convenient to carry, have greater update capacity, have greater capacity to storage, are easily accessible via online download and are environmentally friendly (with saving trees). With the continued technological development of ebooks, many additional features have since been added for ebooks (rotating screen, hyperlink, split screen) and many more features will be developed in the near future..