NAME - MATURKAR RISHABH K. BRANCH - MECHANICAL 2 ENROLLMENT NO.

- 126080319111 SUBJECT - ENGLISH COLLEGE NAME - BHAGWAN MAHAVIR POLYTECHENIC TOPIC - E - BOOKS

E - BOOKS

INTRODUCTION:-

An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, ebooks can also be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as "an electronic version of a printed book,"but e-books can and do exist without any printed equivalent.

HISTORY OF E - BOOKS The inventor and the title of the first e-book are not widely agreed upon. Some notable candidates are listed here. The first e-book may be the Index Thomisticus, a heavily annotated electronic index to the works of Thomas Aquinas, prepared by Roberto Busa beginning in the late 1940s. However, this is sometimes omitted, perhaps because the digitized text was (at least initially) a means to developing an index and concordance, rather than as a published edition in its own right.

E-book formats:Numerous e-book formats emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software companies such as Adobe with its PDF format, and others supported by independent and opensource programmers. Multiple readers followed multiple formats, most of them specializing in only one format, and thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to exclusiveness and limited readerships of e-books, the fractured market of independent publishers and specialty authors lacked consensus

 E Books generally include the complete text of the printed textbook, along with all figures and illustrations. E Books usually have a table of contents that you can click to navigate to specific chapters or sections. You can usually search for text in eBooks. You can usually navigate to a specific page number by typing the page number in a text box. .

components of a given ebook, identify a table of contents, cover art, and so on. Google Books has converted many public-domain works to this open format. In 2010 e-books continued to gain in their own underground markets. Many e-book publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain. At the same time, authors with books that were not accepted by publishers offered their works online so they could be seen by others. Unofficial (and occasionally unauthorized) catalogs of books became available over the web,
and sites devoted to e-books began

disseminating information about e-books to the public.[22]

FEATURES OF E- BOOK:The features and implementation of each eBook is dependent on the publisher. Some eBooks are distributed as Web pages, some are PDF documents, and some use the free Adobe Flash player. Many eBooks include help information from the publisher that describes how to use the features that are available for that eBook. Many eBooks share some of the following characteristics

You can often add highlighting and notes to the eBook. Your highlighting and notes are saved between sessions and are available to you anytime when you open the eBook. You can usually zoom in and out when viewing the eBook. You can sometimes click on links in the eBook which open media such as videos. Some of these additional media are interactive. You can usually print pages from the eBook. You can sometimes save the eBook to your computer for offline viewing. .

E-BOOKS ARE CONVENIENT, BUT BEWARE OF THE DRAWBACKS:There may be more to e-books than consumers think. When readers buy books on an e-book reader, they're not actually buying the book, according to Smart Money. Many consumers don't realize they're actually buying access to the books, not ownership.

Amazon Kindkle and Apple iBooks are among companies using formats that are inaccessible to other e-readers. So, consumers who own one of those two can't transfer their books to other ereaders. Another e-reader warning: Because publishing platforms are so easy to use, just about anyone can publish a book on an e-book platform, so it's possible book-buyers could be buying spam. To make a good purchase, experts say readers should look at page counts, reviews and a sample page or two.

realize Another thing to keep in mind is that people who opt to read books on the phones may not how large the files are and how enhanced features, such as video, can add to the amount of data consumed. That data could push up the phone bill.

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