electronic version off a traditional print book

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eBook

• electronic version off a traditional print book
• Can be read by using personal computer or an
  eBook reader

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eBook

• Most popular method of getting an eBook is to
  purchase a downloadable file
• Can be downloaded in five minutes or less
• Sometimes are comperable in price to their
  traditional print versions

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eBook history

• Early eBooks read only by small and devoted
  intrest groups
• The scope of the subject matter of these eBooks
  included
• - manufactoring
• technics,
• - technikal manuals
• for hardware

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eBook history

• eBook formats
• Can be emerged and proliferated
• supported by software companies or independent
  and open source programmers

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eBook history

• Continue to gain in their own underground
  markets

eBook publishers
distributed books
Aothors with books
offer their works online
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eBook history
In 2008

• New marketing models for eBooks developed
• formats are homogenized
• dedicated reading hardware produced

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eBook history

• eBooks achieved global distribution
• eBook readers on market Amazons
  Kindle,Sonys PRS-500
• Has an eBook market worth 10billion yen

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eBook history

• Include built-in dictionaries, alterable font
  sizes, styles
• Can store from four thousand to over half a
  million pages of text and graphics

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eBook advantages

• Maybe stored on the same device
• Out of print date allowing authors to continue to
  earn royalties
• Text size and font face
• Allow reading in low light or darkness by a
  backlight
• It needs not be held

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eBook disadvantages

• To display, you need an electronic device or
  peripheral software
• Can be affected by an external hardware or
  software failure
• May become incompatible with future devices
• eBooks can be hacked

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eBook Reader

• Are similar to paperbook
• Possibilities
• - bookmark pages
• - make notes
• - highlight passages
• - save text

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eBook Reader

• They tend to have the right screen size, battery
  life span, lighting and date

Disadvantage they are expensive
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eBook Reader

• Some examples
• Plastic Logic (2009 estimate)
• Kindle by Amazon (2007)
• Sony Reader by Sony (2006)
• Librié by Sony (2004)