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MY e-Book Page
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regarding Answer.com http://www.answers.com/topic/e-book-technology?cat=technology
Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: e-book
(Electronic-BOOK) The electronic counterpart of a printed book, which can be viewed on a desktop computer or a portable device such as a laptop computer, PDA or e-book reader. Numerous e-books can be kept on portable units for traveling, eliminating weight and volume compared to equivalent paper books. Electronic bookmarks make referencing easier, and most readers allow the user to annotate pages.
Although fiction and non-fiction books come in e-book formats, technical material is especially suited for e-book delivery because it can be searched. In addition, programming code examples can be quickly copied, which is why CD-ROMs that contain the entire text of the work have been included in the back of many technical paper books.
E-Book Formats
The major problem with e-books is the many formats competing for prime time, including Adobe PDF, which is very popular, as well as Microsoft Reader, eReader, Mobipocket Reader, OPS and OpenReader.
Although it would seem a no-brainer, most formats do not support dictionaries and encyclopedias all that well. They have a search capability, but not a direct lookup, which means if a person looks up the term "network," all the definitions that contain the word "network" will be retrieved rather than the single definition of that term. The results are akin to the mountain of results retrieved by a search engine.
Amazon's Kindle
In November 2007, Amazon.com revolutionized the e-book market with the introduction of its Kindle e-book reader and e-book inventory. This is the first e-book to offer free, wireless access to download e-books and search the Web (see Kindle). See PDF, OPS, Open eBook and OpenReader.
http://www.answers.com/topic/e-book-technology?cat=technology
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regarding Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBook
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.
The main article for this category is Electronic publishing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_publishing
e-book readers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book_device
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What's an ebook (or e-book)?
An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version of a book. The term is used ambiguously to refer to either an individual work in a digital format, or a hardware device used to read books in digital format. Some users deprecate the second meaning in favour of the more precise “ebook device.”
Though e-texts are available as digitally encoded books and the term is often used synonymously with the term ebook, that usage is deprecated. The term e-text is used for the more limited case of data in ASCII text format, while the more general e-book can be in a specialized (and, at times, proprietary) file format. An exception to this rule is the academic e-text, which commonly includes components such as facsimile images, apparatus criticus, and scholarly commentary on the work from one or more editors specially qualified to edit the author or work in question.
An ebook is commonly bundled by a publisher for distribution (as an ebook, an ezine, or a internet newspaper), whereas e-text is distributed in ASCII (or plain text), or in the case of academic works, in the form of discrete media such as compact discs. Metadata relating to the text are sometimes included with etext (though it appears more frequently with ebooks). Metadata commonly include details about author, title, publisher, and copyright date; less common are details regarding language, genre, relevant copyright conventions, etc.
Print book advantages
* Less eye strain over extended reading time
* If small, very portable.
* Usable in adverse environmental conditions.
* Robust and durable.
* Readable when severely damaged.
* Requires no power source, and no alternative reading device like a PC or a palmtop.
* Errors are “forever”; this unchangeability sometimes adds to its value.
* Has more value as “collector’s items,” e.g., first editions
* At the moment, print books are primarily published by established houses including numerous international conglomerates, which can result in greater funds available for promotion of a title.
Ebook disadvantages
* From the user’s point of view: Can be incompatible with new or replacement hardware or software
* Require care in handling and storage of the files, to avoid damage or loss
* From the publisher/author’s point of view: Can in some cases be hacked, or disseminated without approval from the author or publisher (some formats are more susceptible to this than others)
* Not normally a good format choice for works that have extensive and/or large illustrations, such as works in art history, photography, large maps, etc.
Print book disadvantages
* From the user’s point of view: Can be priced in a way that inhibits availability
* From the user’s and author’s point of view: Can be put out of print and made unavailable to readers
* From the author’s point of view: Can be difficult to get a publisher to amend errata
* Can be an awkward format for reference works or works that have many internal crossreferences.
* An expensive format for works that require color, since color printing commonly requires several passes of paper through the press (one pass per color).
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1 History
2 Formats
3 Advantages
4 Disadvantages
4.1 Digital rights management
5 Production
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
History
Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques, and other subjects.
Numerous e-book formats emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software companies such as Adobe's PDF format, and others supported by independent and open-source programmers. Multiple readers naturally 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 independents and specialty authors lacked consensus regarding a standard for packaging and selling e-books. 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.
As of 2008, new marketing models for e-books are being developed, formats are beginning to homogenize, and dedicated reading hardware has been produced. E-books have achieved global distribution, and electronics manufacturers are releasing more e-book readers for general consumer use, such as Amazon's Kindle model or Sony's PRS-500. E-books have seen tremendous market growth in Japan throughout the 2000s and currently has an e-book market worth ¥10 billion[citation needed]. (http://ivan.web.id/documents/32.html)
Comparison of e-book formats
1 Plain text files
2 Hypertext Markup Language
3 Open Electronic Book Package Format
4 TomeRaider
5 Arghos Diffusion
6 Flip Books
7 NISO Z39.86 Format
8 FictionBook
9 Text Encoding Initiative
10 Plucker
11 CHM Format
12 Portable Document Format
13 PostScript
14 DjVu
15 Microsoft LIT
16 eReader (formerly Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press)
17 Desktop Author
18 DNL Reader
19 Newton eBook
20 Apabi
21 iPod Notes
22 Libris
23 Mobipocket
24 IDPF
25 SSReader
26 See also
List of e-book readers
An e-book device, sometimes also called an e-book reader, is a device used to display e-books. It may be a device specifically designed for that purpose, or one intended for other purposes as well. The term is restricted to hardware devices, not software programs.
Specialized devices have the advantage of doing one thing well. Specifically, they tend to have the right screen size, battery lifespan, lighting and weight. A disadvantage of such devices is that they are often expensive when compared to generic devices such as laptops and PDAs
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POPULARITI BLOG
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BLOG DAN MEDIA MASSA
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