The popularity of electronic-books is beginning to soar. Due to the increase of e-book readers, electronic services are now able to collect information about those reading digitally. Alexandra Alter’s article “Your E-Book Is Reading You” reveals the information that e-book services are pertaining about their readers. The author discusses how this information is being utilized by those in the publishing industry and the reactions felt by e-book readers concerning their privacy.
Reader’s would find themselves intrigued by Alter’s revelations in this formal and factual article. Although the author refrains from including their opinion, the reader still forms a strong response to whether collecting information from e-book readers is admissible. The author does not need to include her opinions since the examples used in the article are intriguing. Alter discusses how electronic book (e-book) services such as “Amazon, Apple and Google” can now track information about
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Do most readers skip over the introduction, or read it closely, underlining passages and scrawling notes in the margins?” The reader grasps that reading has, until now, been a private act because of these rhetorical questions. Alter sustains a neutral tone throughout the article, compelling readers with evidence rather than opinions. She includes statements from multiple people with disparate opinions, therefore, the reader is presented multiple arguments about readers’ privacy and are able to form an educated opinion. Listing such as “information from the device--including the last page you've read, plus your bookmarks, highlights, notes and annotations" informs the reader of the magnitude of data that can be collected by e-book services. Therefore, enforcing the author’s point by not just presenting one argument but instead