Or when they are introduced to the Rocket eBook Reader, which is an electronic gadget about the size of a hefty paperback, but holds up to 100 books in its memory at a time. If you doze off or run to answer the door, the Rocket Book turns itself off after ten minutes. And the battery lasts for 40 hours, so the Rocket Book is handy to carry on plane trips, or to the beach. For students, ebooks are a boon. What a joy to carry one electronic reader with built-in dictionary, multiple bookmarks, searching, indexing, footnoting, highlighting, annotation all at your fingertips.
Some people have concerns regarding copyrighting.
Ebooks are no different than other books in that regard. Once a copy is paid for, the buyer has the right to print off one copy. For authors, the royalty news is terrific. Authors can even publish themselves, and do the marketing themselves, returning to the old days of drumming up their own readership. What the printing press and the copier did for writers of the paper and quill era, electronic publishing will do for authors and readers in the new millennium.