It includes chat-room discussions, email notes and commentaries, graphic and audio montages, and other forms of communication and information display. Low cost . The cost of doing these activities in person, especially for data-stream services, would be exorbitant. Hard copy publications do not lend themselves to further manipulation. Electronic copies can be transferred to word processing or other software programs, such as spreadsheets or qualitative analyzers where they can be manipulated or analyzed.
Electronic documents are easier to store, organize, and retrieve than their hard copy equivalents.
The content of electronic documents can be searched quickly and accurately for selected words or characters. The human eye can search at only a fraction of the speed with far less accuracy. Actual and Potential Disadvantages of Internet Resources vs. the Local Library Little or no review process . Immediacy often means no review of electronic publications. The quality of some electronic publications is identical to hard copy versions, such as government publications.