There are problems with formats due to Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues.Therefore copyright problems have greatly increased since the advent of the electronic book. A disadvantage of ebooks it that it is very easy and cheap to copy them illegally.You can have an entire library with you at all times. In a single device you can carry hundreds of books.They can be shared with people far away instantly and the owner does doesn't have the risk of losing her copy of the book.Electronic books allow searches and may help you find parts of the text you are looking for. Technological advances are making e-readers increasingly cheaper and more comfortable to use.eBooks are environmentally friendly: there is no need to cut down trees.Publishing companies were a great barrier many authors never managed to overcome. Thanks to the ebook many new authors can see their works reach the market.eBooks are cheaper for users because the cost of producing and distributing additional copies is negligible.Ebooks are cheaper and faster to produce than printed books. But which of the two formats is superior? Is this just a fad or the ebook will end up completely replacing the paper book? eBooks pros and cons Today, the ebook has grown so much that although print books generate more revenues than ebooks, some estimates indicate that in terms of units sold, the ebook may already be ahead of the paper book in the USA. Hart, who is widely considered as the inventor of the modern ebook His Project Gutenberg launched in 1971, aimed at making ebooks available via the Internet. From the early 1960s Doug Engelbart (Stanford Research Institute) and Andries van Dam (Brown University) develop electronic reading systems which included hyperlinks, indexes and graphics. Later, the Italian Jesuit Roberto Busa compiled from 1949 to 1970 an annotated electronic index of Thomas Aquinas' works, which was first stored in a computer and then in a CD-ROM. In a Spanish teacher, Angela Ruiz Robles, patented the first electronic book reader, called Enciclopedia Mecanica, the idea being to reduce the number of books children had to carry to school. Its speed was supposed to be controlled by the reader. The machine included miniaturized text on a ribbon and a magnifying glass. "a simple machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light plug and read hundred-thousand-word novel in 10 minutes if I want to." However, the origin of the ebook can be traced back to 1930, when Bob Brown, an American writer and businessman, wrote The Redies, a manifesto in which he described: eBooks have many advantages over paper books but many people still prefer to read traditional paper books. Later, tablets and smart phones have also contributed to this growing trend.
The success of e-readers such as the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Amazon Kindle contributed to stimulating the popularity of ebooks.
Now we turn our attention to the format we prefer to read.Įlectronic books (e-books or ebooks) have revolutionized the publishing industry. On netivist we love books and we like to discuss them, for instance we are debating the best British crime novelist, American writer, and literary fantasy world. Vote and tell us whether you prefer electronic or traditional paper books. Last checked: 11ĭOI, Digital Object Identifier.Have e-readers changed the way you read? We discuss the pros and cons of ebooks. XSD, eXtensible Markup Language Schema, Last checked: 11 October 2007, ĭCMI, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Last checked: October 11 2007, ĭIG35, Digital Image Group -DIG35 Specification – Metadata for Digital Images. WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization, Last checked: October 11 2007, URI, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, IETF RFC2396. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2001, 566-569. A watermarking environment and a metadataĭigital image repository for the protection and management of digital images of the hellenic cultural heritage.
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