Task 2C

Comparison

The advantages of digital publishing compared to traditional printing are, Digital publishing can give a variety of content across multiple devices such as smartphones and tablets. 

A few examples of traditional printing are Screen printing, Lithography, Gravure and Flexography compared to digital publishing these methods are a lot more time consuming as it has to be done by hand whereas digital publishing can be done on a computer. Another advantage is that more people are going online and using smartphones/tablets which means they spend more time looking at the news and reading books online than going and buying a newspaper, magazine and books etc. A few examples of digital publishing are e-magazines, e-newspapers, adverts, DVD covers, Training materials, promotional material, flyers, e-books and leaflets. 

For example if you were to use an e-book, the advantages of this would be that it can be purchased instantly instead of going to a book store and buying a book, you can take it on the go with you and it’s easy to put away as you can just put your smartphone or tablet in your bag/pocket, can offer free samples of books, magazines to lure more customers into using e-books and lower production costs. The disadvantages of an e-book are, that it can be easily pirated, cannot be signed/autographed which means it loses sentimental value, harder to loan friends as you won't want to give them your smartphone/tablet and a change of reading experience as many authors such as J.K Rowling don't want their books being turned into an e-book as it changes the experience of reading the book.

Overall I think that digital publishing is better than traditional publishing as it’s a lot more modern and many more people use digital publishing.