Summary
This paper focuses on three important issues: definitions of reading, developmental stages of reading process and consideration of position of a classic book in the IT era. Paying tribute to a classic book, we pointed to the fact that modern technology does not make it less meaningful. Digital revolution is forcing us to a radical review of the procedures and concepts that were associated with written text.
Digital books and readers are the only category of books that is in expansion on the market. Book is one of the basic forms and foundations of human culture. Reading from the screen does not contradict to reading books printed on paper; on the contrary, these two readings are complementary and mutually reinforcing. Reading from the screen is just a new form of adoption of the text, the essence remains the same, reading remains reading. E-book does not, therefore, mean the death of the classic book. The history of civilization teaches us that the new medium does not cancel the previous one, on the contrary, it helps it as a kind of marketing collateral. Our culture is a synergy of all current and all previous media, so we are not inclined to any catastrophic visions of the fate of classical books.

Keywords:
reading process,reading crisis, classic (printed) book, electronic book (E-book), modern technologies.

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