E-Books Reading

Electronic books, or e-books, provide a new, cool, environmentallyfriendly, and inexpensive way to read.
Differing from their paper cousins only in the binding, e-books are stored and used as computer files rather than as ink on paper. One area that might soon see the leap to e-book use is the classroom. Students would take their handheld e-book readers to the electronic bookstore, load their texts, carry the lot in their bookbag, and not notice the extra weight of a dozen full-length texts. E-books can be purchased directly on the Internet from hundreds of publishers or retail e-bookstores. In either case, pay with your credit or debit card, then download it directly as with a free book, or wait for it to arri e as an e-mail attachment, a disk or a !". E-books can be iewed on a computer screen or using a book reader. #bout the size of a large trade paperback, these handheld e-book readers ha e high-resolution, easy-to-read screens, and a computer or telephone connector to obtain files. $etter yet, they ha e enough memory to store many book files at once. %ew con entional bookstores carry e-books yet, but it&s a simple matter for a sa y person to find them. 'he best bet is an Internet search engine, directory, or specialty information centre. 'here, locate e-books by author, sub(ect, genre, IS$), or title. 'he online ersions of some giant bookstore chains also ha e searchable e-book sections. E-publishers and many of their authors ha e web pages. 'hese ha e further information, plot summaries, re iews, pictures, and other good stuff. 'hey usually pro ide se eral chapters to read free so you can try-before-you-buy, (ust as in a paper bookstore. If you read a book and like it, you could always write a re iew and send it to the author. *aybe it&ll get published on the net with your name and web site attached. # few big-name authors such as Stephen +ing, #nne ,ice, %rederic %orsyth, "iana -abledon, and !olleen *c!ullough, as well as some large paper houses like Simon and Schuster ha e already put a toe in the e-book waters, and the field gets more crowded all the time. If you lo e paper books to death and (ust can&t imagine reading any other way, don&t panic. So far, e-books are an alternati e to the traditional ones. 'hey ha en&t replaced them ... yet. .owe er, you don&t ha e to be much of a prophet to note that since distributing books electronically is easier, faster, cheaper, and offers greater ariety, we should soon see a lot more of them. Some promise to make the experience better than paper with multimedia readers. Others produce audio ersions where the author reads it to you. #h, indulgence. +eep in mind, you take the same chances buying an electronic book as a paper one. *aybe you won&t like it after all. $ut the ma(ority of electronic publishers screen their books carefully, insist on professional editing, and publish only the best. If you read an excerpt first and buy only from reputable publishers, you won&t often be disappointed.
'.E %/'/,E O% ,E#"I)Electronic Books by ,ick Sutcliffe
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