FMP: Thoughts on Exploring a Digital Platform

With media development and conversion to digital happening daily, I felt it would be beneficial to get a sense of how it could continue to develop in the future, as this is a platform I intend to utilise. I decided to do some research into the future of the paper book and how this will impact on the need for digital elements like VR/animation snd how it will effect my future career as a creative:

Are paper books really disappearing?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160124-are-paper-books-really-disappearing

"Books are expensive to manufacture and ship, so the economic pressure to digitise will be great" - An insight into why digital publications are on the uprise. 

"In several experiments involving more than 400 kindergarteners, Bus and her colleagues found that kids who read animated e-books understood the story better and learned more vocabulary than those who read static ones. “For young children, written language is often difficult, but animated pictures can help them understand more difficult parts of the text,” she says"
- Thinking about how immersive content will effect on the way the reader receives the information.

Future of Printed Media/Advertisements 

https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/what-is-the-future-of-magazine-media

"“People are more acute than ever about sniffing out cloned content. Magazine content needs increasingly to be valuable and exclusive: what do you have that no one else does?”"
- It's better for a magazine to make unique content that noone can compare to - make reading it into an experience they won't forget/get anywhere else?