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Simply speaking, an E-book is an electronic or digital version of a printed book. Books that are digitally formatted, stored and distributed are popularly known as electronic books (E-books). The term is commonly meant for the digital publication of an individual's work or a hardware device that has been programmed to read digitized books. Though, the latter precisely suggests an e-book device. The technologies related to digital books are going through rapid changes.
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Why E-books? - Authors' Standpoint
If you are a budding author or struggling to make a mark as an author, you have to be very lucky to get yourself a publisher or a sponsor who will fund your publication. However with e-books, you need not bother about the hardships that your predecessors had to go through. There is no cost involved. All you have to do is to get yourself the software that compiles e-books and publish it on the Internet. The software gets the manuscripts compiled as digital books on the Internet.
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Publishers' Standpoint
Mere publication of a book is not the end of worries for the publisher. They have to take care of things like storing, shipping, handling and costs involved to them. With e-books, they needn't worry about these hassles.
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Formats of E-books
Often, e-books are the digital version of printed books. Digital books have many formats to choose from. The list given below is inclusive, and not exhaustive by any means:
. Image files
· Rich Text Format
. Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
· Open Electronic Book Package Format
· Text Encoding Initiative
· Fiction Book
· Plucker
· CHM Format
· Portable Document Format
· TeX Format
· PostScript
· DjVu
· Microsoft
· Mobipocket
· eReader
· ExeBook
· DesktopAuthor
· .doc or .txt files
· PDF files
· Newton eBook
· Apabi
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E-Book Device
An e-book device is a device programmed to read books in digital format. Some of them are:
. Desktop PCs
· Tablet PCs
. Notebooks
· Internet tablets
· Media players
· Subnotebooks
· PDAs
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E-Text
E-texts are equivalent to e-books. E-books are distributed in the form of online books and e-magazines whereas e-text is a compilation of plain text and is distributed, as in case of academic works, through compact discs.
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Today, the Internet is a big storehouse or digital library and e-books form an integral part of it.
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