Advantages of eBooks
- carry entire library in your pocket, back up
a copy of library
- library is as big as your disk drive
- keep it? Throw it away? It’s just Bits, your
next book is just moments Away
Device and Distribution Option
- integrated dictionary
- 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/
Conclusion
- can read a steamy book in public
- no shipping costs/ wait time, save gas,
save time, cheaper, free e-books
periodicals on a single device, portable
- no need to go to the library to get e- books
“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
- no more tree cutting
http://www.successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm