英语辩论——正方一辩

Resolved, the resolution is “reading e-books or online is better than reading traditional books.”

Honorable judges and distinguished classmates,

I am great honored to be the first speaker of the Affirmative Side. We interpret the Resolution to mean “reading e-books or online is better than reading traditional books.” Now I’m going to address o ur arguments, which consist of four parts.

For the first part, I’d like to demonstrate our argument from the convenience of the Arthur and reader. From the author’s viewpoint, compared to printed publishing, it is cheaper and easier for authors to self-publish e-books. He can revise his electronic books whenever he wants. In contrast, if he works with a traditional publisher, the publisher, not he, decides whether and when a revised version of his book. On the other hand, when the author needs to update certain parts of the e-book, he simply edits the electronic document, saves the updated version, and then informs customers about the new release. It is very low update cost. If the author adopts the traditional way to publish the book, the publisher will probably have to make a minimum production run of 1000 copies. This takes time and money. From the readers’viewpoint, It is possible to purchase an ebook 24 hours a day, every day of the year, from the comfort of your own house or office. You can purchase and download an ebook, even if you are on a vacation. It saves us from going to a shop, purchasing a book or wasting time on home delivery. Overall, this is a time consuming process. And since time is a very important factor in today`s world, E-books provide instant solution to our questions. And you can read ebooks anywhere, on the bus, train, airplane and while standing in line. Moreover, Ebooks take up less space. You practically don't need any space to store them. You don't need a library or a room for them. You can store hundreds and thousands of ebooks in your computer. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you, on CD, in a laptop, notebook or any ebook reader, without worrying about their weight. In addition, A number of ebooks sport a Search button, which allows you to quickly jump to the page containing the word you're interested in. That function cannot be achieve in traditional books.

For the second part, I’d like to emphases the environment function of e-books.

E-book is environmental-friendly industry. The production of e-books does not consume paper, ink, etc. It can protect forests from destroying. According to the statistics from weekly news for modern citizen , Every ton of paper produced in China will spend 7 trees and 100 cubic meters of water. Saving every 5000 A4 paper is equivalent to saving 1 cubic meter of wood. If the country save a piece of paper per person per day, we can save 474 500 000 000 sheets of paper a year. Thus we can protect 1,581,666 trees per year. It is a very meaningful action for us to do.

For the third part, I’d like to talk about the money and time. For the authors, as

e-books are delivered through the Internet, there are no packing and shipping expenses. And authors don’t need to print thousands of the books to wait for the buyers. E-books can save money for them. As for the consumers, an e-book costs much cheaper than one book. Moreover, a great share of books are available free of charge.

For the fourth part, I’d like to pay attention to the unique function of e-books. Unlike your usual printed books, e-books can contain not only text and images, but also audio and even video. This way, if the reader isn't the type of person who likes to read paragraphs of text, he or she can choose to listen to the audio version. Some

e-books even have flash applications that allow the reader to "interact" with the contents. This is useful for kinesthetic learners.

Above all, the affirmative side believes that the negative side debaters find most of the information from the Internet. We all feel that the e-books are powerful and convenient. From above four aspects, we firmly believe that reading e-books or online is better than reading traditional books.

Thank you!