E-books.

E-books are becoming increasingly popular, and it might take up 50% of all books sales in major market a decade later. Many publishers are now desperately releasing books online because like the music and movie industry, they can either go digital or they don't survive. The rise of e-books are greatly due to the recent global release of Amazon's Kindle Book and Apple Ipad. To get an e-books, all you have to do is just to tap on it and the book will be downloaded right onto your bookshelf with these new media ecosystem.

Advantages of e-books:

• save trees as trees are required to manufacture paper
• can certain informatio from the book immediately
• delievered almost instantaneously
• portable
• searchable

(Sasson, n.d.)

The new media ecosystem is a 'social software'. It is an informal networks, conversational media and online diaries. For examples, blogs, wikis, RSS and podcasts. (Hobson, 2005)
The media ecosystem has changed in 8 ways : -

• volume of information grows.
• the variety of information sources increases and the visibility of new creators is enhanced in the age of social media.
• the impact of people's use of time and attention
• the increase in the velocity of information
• the changing nature and availability of information venues
• the compelling vibrance of virtual environments
• the improved relevance of imformation results
• the participatory nature of information exchanges.

The information ecosystem used to be scarce, expensive, institutionally oriented and packaged for consumption. But apparently, it is now abundant, cheap, personally oriented and designed for participation.

(Ipri, 2010)

References:

Ipri, T 2010, Libraries and the new media ecosystem, Libraries and transliteracy, viewed on 10 November 2010, http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/libraries-and-the-new-media-ecosystem/

Hobson, N 2005, The new media ecosystem: Conversations, influence and you, Nevon, viewed on 10 November 2010, http://www.nevillehobson.com/pubfiles/downloads/051020_NewMedia_FEIEA.pdf

Sasson, R n.d, The benefits and advantages of ebooks, Success consciousness, viewed on 10 November 2010, http://successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm