the electronic book in comparison to printed books that explains the
differnces between the two media.
BOOKS: ELECTRONIC:
Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] A Basic Explanation of
Electronic Books OR Ebooks
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:58:07 -0400
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@temple.edu>
Reply-To: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
<LIS-E-RESOURCES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: LIS-E-RESOURCES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] What do theydo with an e-book?
If you go to Google Books on the web, you can view a very large number of
electronic books or ebooks and draw your own conclusions regarding the
differences from seeing a book and its full contents or full text on the
computer as opposed to holding the book in your hand in print.
<http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp>
Here is the article on Ebooks from the Wikipedia
An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook: also ecobook) is the digital media
equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on
personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or
e-book devices.
An e-book is a specialized type of e-text.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Formats
* 3 Advantages
* 4 Disadvantages
o 4.1 Digital rights management
* 5 Production
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References
Continue reading this article at this URL:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book>
In Google Books you can search words and combinations of words just as in the
Google web search engine to find books containing content that meets your
search criteria.
This group of books will take the user of this URL to a group of books that
respond in content to a search of the phrases global warming and light rail.
Books 1 - 10 of 220 on "global warming" and "light rail".
I hope that these thoughts will be of some help to you.
You will also find a variety of discussions that include ebooks to be found at
this URL:
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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