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Advantages of eBooks

Advantages of eBooks

  • Mobility

- carry entire library in your pocket, back up

a copy of library

  • Saving Physical Space

- library is as big as your disk drive

  • Convenience

- keep it? Throw it away? It’s just Bits, your

next book is just moments Away

Device and Distribution Option

  • Foreign language learning

- integrated dictionary

  • Ease-of-Use

- the e-book will remain ‘open’ on the page

you are reading

- underline and take notes, adjust the font size

& can background color of the ebook

- add notes, bookmarks/Highlight, searchable

and linkable text

https://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2014/03/10/the-history-of-ebooks-from-1930s-readies-to-todays-gpo-ebook-services/

Overview

Advantages of eBooks

Conclusion

  • Discretion

- can read a steamy book in public

  • Definition of eBooks

  • Devices and distribution options

  • eBooks Advantages

  • Conclusion

  • Fast, easy and immediate access
  • Space, time and money saver
  • Saving Time & Money

- no shipping costs/ wait time, save gas,

save time, cheaper, free e-books

What is an eBook?

  • Can store thousands of e-books, magazines &

periodicals on a single device, portable

  • Avoid traveling

- no need to go to the library to get e- books

  • No packing and shipping expenses

“eBook. noun a book that is published in electronic form, for example on the Internet or on a disk, and not printed on paper”

– Cambridge.org

  • Impact on Environment

- no more tree cutting

  • Save trees,

http://www.successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm

From Paper to Pixels: Reading in the Digital Age

By: Nirmala D. Nag