E - BOOKS

Presentation is submitted by:-

NAME- D. B. Vijay Krishna

CLASS- IX SECTION- ‘D’

ROLL NO- 24

SCHOOL- Birla High School.

A COMPUTER(I.T) PROJECT!!

CONTENTS

DEFINITION HISTORYE-BOOK FORMAT

COMPARISION TO PRINTED BOOKS

ADVANTAGESE-READERS/

TABLETS

ACKNOWLE--DGEMENT

DEFINITION

An electronic book (e-book), is a book-length publication in

digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on

computers or other electronic devices.

Sometimes it is also defined as "an electronic version of a

printed book", many e-books exist without any printed

equivalent.

However, almost any sophisticated electronic device that

features a controllable viewing screen, including

computers, tablet computers, and smartphones can also

be used to read e-books.

HISTORY

Some years earlier the idea of the e-reader came to Bob

Brown after watching his first "talkie". In 1930, he wrote an entire

book on this invention and titled it The Readies, playing off the

idea of the "talkie“

The first e-book may be the Index Thomisticus, a heavily

annotated electronic index to the works of Thomas Aquinas,

prepared by Roberto Buse 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.

1990

Eastgate Systems publishes the first hypertext fiction, "Afternoon, a story", by Michael Joyce, available on

floppy disk.

1992

Sony launches the Data Discman electronic book reader.

1993

Digital Book, Inc. offers digital books on floppy disk in Digital Book Format(DBF).

Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee texts published on CD-ROM by Brad Templeton.

C & M Online is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina and publishes e-books through its imprint, Boson

Books. Authors include Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Leon Katz, Richard Popkin, and Robert Rodman.

1995

Amazon starts to sell physical books on the Internet.

Online poet Alexis Kirke discusses the need for wireless internet electronic paper readers in his article "The

Emuse".

1996

Project Gutenberg reaches 1,000 titles. The target is 1,000,000.

1997

E Ink Corporation is co-founded in 1997 by Joseph Jacobson and Amazon Kindle.

1998

Kim Blagg obtained the first ISBN issued to an ebook and began marketing multimedia-enhanced ebooks on CDs through retailers including amazon.com, bn.com and borders.com. The first ebookreaders- Rocket ebook and SoftBook - were introduced.

Websites began selling ebooks in English, such as eReader.com and eReads.com.

2000

Microsoft Reader with ClearType technology.

Stephen King offers his book Riding the Bullet as a digital file; it can only be read on a computer.

2001

Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.

2004

Google announces plans to digitize the holdings of several major libraries,[as part of what would later be called the Google Books Library Project.

2005

Amazon buys Mobipocket.

2014

Amazon.com launched Kindle Unlimited.

E-BOOK FORMATReader Native E-Book Formats

Amazon Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets AZW, AZW3, PDF, TXT, non-DRM MOBI, PRC

Nook Simple Touch,Nook Tablet EPUB, PDF

Apple iPad EPUB, IBA, PDF

Sony Reader PRS-350, PRS-650, PRS-950[79] EPUB, PDF, TXT, RTF, DOC, BBeB

Kobo eRader, Kobo Touch, Kobo Arc EPUB, PDF, TXT, RTF, HTML, CBR, CBZ

PocketBook Reader, PocketBook TouchEPUB DRM, EPUB, PDF DRM, PDF, FB2, FB2.ZIP, TXT,

DJVU, HTM, HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF, CHM, TCR, PRC

Some reasons people prefer eBooks:

I. Storage – People can store hundreds, even thousands, of books within one device.

II. Ease of purchase – Buying an eBook is just a click away.

III. Portability – The worst thing is finishing a book on vacation and not having the next book to start.

IV. Price – The price of an eBook is usually less than a print book.

V. Purchasing Options – A person can find an eBook at almost 80 different online outlets.

What it comes down to is accessibility across the board. It’s a cure for the “right here, right now” syndrome that people can experience when buying new things. The books are available for purchase and reading at any time and any place (battery permitting).

Some reasons people prefer print books:

I. Tangibility – They get a tangible item for their money.

II. Accomplishment – They feel more accomplished when the mass of the book moves from the right side to the left and they know they are almost done.

ADVANTAGES OF AN E-BOOKOver 2 million free e-books were available between July 4 and August 4 in 2009, Mobile

availability of e-books may be provided for users with a mobile data connection, so that

these e-books need not be stored on the device. In the space that a comparably sized print

book takes up, an e-reader can potentially contain thousands of e-books, limited only by its

memory capacity.

There are many benefits of e-books like :-

I. Mechanical and multimedia benefits like E-book websites can include the ability to

translate books into many different languages, making the works available to speakers of

languages not covered by printed translations.

II. Digital rights management like Anti-circumvention techniques may be used to restrict

what the user may do with an e-book. For instance, it may not be possible to transfer

ownership of an e-book to another person, though such a transaction is common with

physical books. Some devices can phone home to track readers and reading habits,

restrict printing, or arbitrarily modify reading material.

E-READER/TABLETAn e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that

is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and digital periodicals. An e-book

reader is similar in form, but oftentimes more limited in purpose than, a tablet. In comparison to

tablets, many E-readers are better than tablets for reading because e-readers are more

portable, have better readability in sunlight (if they are e-ink readers), and may have longer

battery life.

E-Reader applications

Additionally, some of the major book retailers and multiple third-party developers offer free (and

in some third-party cases, premium paid) e-reader applications for the Mac and PC computers

as well as for Android, Blackberry, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone and Palm OS devices to allow

the reading of e-books and other documents independently of dedicated e-book devices.

Examples are apps for the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo e-Reader, and Sony

Reader.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Firstly I would like to thank our I.T. teacher for giving us an

opportunity to make a power point presentation on E-

BOOK.

Then, I would like to thank Google and Wikipedia for all

the valuable and useful information & pictures.

Last but not the least I would like to thank Microsoft Power

Point Presentation 2013 to let me make a presentation.

THAT’S ALL THANK YOU AND HAVE A

NICE DAY……