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alt. electronic book, a book published in electronic form n. electronic book, a book published in electronic form
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As a generic term, an electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book or e-edition) or a digital book is a book-publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", many e-books exist without any printed equivalent. Commercially produced and sold e-books are usually intended to be read on dedicated e-readers. However, almost any sophisticated electronic device that features a controllable viewing screen, including computers, tablets and smartphones can also be used to read e-books. Nowadays, both print as well as e-book selling is moving to the web. For instance, in the United States of America more "books are published online than distributed in hard copy in book shops". The main reasons that people are buying books online are prices, comfort and selection process. Notwithstanding that most people appreciate higher regular "bricks & mortar" bookshops, "yet almost every single one of us is buying books online". Based on this information it is almost certain that the e-publishing will soon overtake traditional publishing.
E-book reading is increasing in the US; by 2014 28% of adults had read an e-book, compared to 23% in 2013. This is increasing because 50% of American adults by 2014 had a dedicated device, either an e-reader or a tablet, compared to 30% owning such a device by the end of 2013.
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The deluge of self-published and vanity published e-books, music tracks and art works has generated few masterpieces and a lot of trash.
If you like this e-book, go and buy the treeware version, available now as a paperback from the same publisher.
Giants like Microsoft have successfully entered the fray with new e-book reader applications, clearer fonts, and massive marketing.
E-books have yet to develop the user-friendliness, platform-independence, portability, browsability and many other attributes of this ingenious medium, the Gutenberg tome.
Ostensibly, consumers should gravitate to the feature-rich and much cheaper e-book.
But when it comes to the general case, consumers found that the restrictions of the first E-books outweighed their benefits.
There is no doubting that finally e-books will surpass print books as a medium and offer numerous options: hyperlinks within the e-book and without it - to web content, reference works, etc.
Taylor have unveiled at the recent ALA a prototype e-book distribution system jointly developed by ibooks and Digital Owl.
E-books may also help restore the balance between best-sellers and midlist authors and between fiction and textbooks.
This tendency - by both publishers and libraries - to inadequately and inappropriately pour old wine into new vessels is what caused the recent furor over e-books.
Existing contracts between authors and publishers may not cover e-books.
It allows users to select bits and pieces from a library of e-books, combine them into a totally new tome and print and bind the latter on demand.
With e-books, content will once more become a collaborative effort, as it has been well into the Middle Ages.
ISBN 3-426-01776-8 Original: Strike Deep Verlag: Knaur Erscheinungsdatum: 1989 Dieses E-Book ist nicht zum Verkauf bestimmt!
Resolving from the client's PC, e-book reader, or PDA has the advantage of being able to respond to the user's specific condition (location, time of day, etc.