The eBook Revolution!
No more lugging voluminous tomes of literature. eBooks bring you all the books you’d ever want to read, right in your hand…
From hardbound editions to paperbacks, we’ve seen them all. From roadside bookstalls to the huge shopping malls,we’ve come across books varying in shapes and sizes, not to mention a wild assortment of topics. So, do we say exit paper and enter eBooks? It’s the digital age after all. Why trudge all the way to your local library when you can get the book you want right at home, with the click of a button? Why bother rushing through the daily news when you can read it at leisure in the online newsletter that’s delivered to your office inbox everyday? That’s the power that the Internet has granted us.
‘Computers and the Web will change the way we access information and revolutionise our lives’—truer words were never spoken! Access to information has become speedier and more user friendly. From electronic formats of books and even entire encyclopaedias to magazines, journals and guides, you can find them all on the Net and download the book of your choice onto a handheld, PDA or even your desktop PC.
The idea behind eBooks is that you can avail of books in a faster,more economical, and environment- friendly manner.And they provide for a richer interaction by giving you the advantage of links to other information sources and support for multimedia. These books are easier to carry around and are extremely useful when searching for and updating information. Why e-publish? We don’t mean here that eBooks are only useful for those totally devoted to books, and forever want to be reading something or the other. eBooks can also serve as your first foray into the literary world if you are an aspiring writer.
For a writer, nothing beats the pleasure of having his work published. But in the conventional paper-and-ink world, this pleasure doesn’t come easily. For one, you would have to be sufficiently recognized for a publisher to take you on. After all, why would someone invest money in your work if they weren’t certain of a decent return through sales? And if you decide to publish your own work, you’d need enough dough to blow a well placed contacts because distributors and retail outlets are normally reluctant to display the works of novices. On the other hand, for you to publish an eBook today, all you would need is a word processor, a free plugin such as MS Reader that creates the eBook in the desired format and an Internet connection.