50 Benefits of Ebooks
Subtitle: A Thinking Person's Introduction to the Digital Reading Revolution, Where Ebooks are Low-Cost or Free
Edition: 2009
Publisher: Zorba Press
Published: USA
Format: paperback, PDF and ePub
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780927379175
Subjects: ebooks; electronic publishing; e-book; literacy
Genres: non-fiction
First sentence: Ebooks are books comprised of digitized text, designed to be read on computer screens, ebook reading devices, or portable handheld devices. Like a paper book, an ebook as two main functions: to communicate information and to store information.
Description: 50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. In 21 chapters, the book explores five essential aspects of ebook reading and publishing: A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books; B. Reading Ebooks; C. Ebooks for Authors and Publishers; D. The Value of Reading; and E. The Education of an Ebooklover. 
  Ebook newcomers will find the basics here. And ebook professionals can debate and debunk the author's wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by reading the essay, "Publishing Ebooks: Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009."
    Pastore writes that he loves paper books, and hopes that they are never replaced by their electronic progeny. Nevertheless, every day, ebooks are growing in sales, and in significance. After years of sputtering, the digital reading revolution has at last arrived. 50 Benefits of Ebooks is your friendly guide.
Notes: --Included is a Glossary of Ebook terms, a chapter about Resources, and an Index.
--This title, in paperback and ebook, is not available from the bookstores listed on the Open Library page. To keep our costs down, and to pass that savings to our readers, our books are available only via our Lulu storefront.
--The paperback edition is $ 20 plus shipping; the ebook editions (PDF or ePub) are $ 1 ... only 1/20th the price of the paperback -- and contain all the same content as the paper book -- except the paper.
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