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Blio eReader ( ) is relatively new (launched in 2010). Programs such as Plucker ( ) and more recently Blio are able to create eBooks. Battery charging and battery life need to be explored as does design and ergonomics.

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Ease of use is an important consideration as well as the number of inbuilt features, internal and upgradeable memory capacity, screen quality, font style, size and colour options, flexibility downloading and displaying different publishing formats, online and offline uploading of eBooks and portability. The choice at the moment (in 2011) is quite diverse and models vary in style, size, weight, colour, cost, functionality, features and multimedia options. Apps on iPods, iPhones and iPads emerged, eventually competing with other Smart Phones and digital tablet operating systems and models (e.g. With the memory capacity and processing speeds increasing and purchase costs decreasing, devices became more specialised with the advent of dedicated eReaders, such as the Kindle and Sony eReaders.

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With the advent of small, portable devices, people quickly recognised that they could read their preferred or favourite texts not only on their computers but alternatively on hand held portable devices such as PDAs from Palm and HP as well as from other manufacturers. Using text to speech applications or screen reading programs, they could be read back to users and voiced aloud.

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PDF files could be opened in programs such as Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and many others. if text only) and in MS Word and browsers (i.e. These texts could be opened in Notebook or WordPad (i.e. The format was initially text, HTML or later PDF with some early ePublishing formats available. In the past students and educators could freely download novels, fiction and nonfiction as well as poetry, quotations and study guides from a number of pioneering web sites. Background to eBooks, Readers and DevicesĮBooks or electronic texts have been available for many years.

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Using computer based software users can also write, create and design their own content, with text or with photos, drawings, graphic images and illustrations.Ģ. School text books, study guides, journals, magazines, picture books, talking books and even some newspapers can be purchased or subscribed to on many other sites from companies all over the world, in many different languages. Books can be purchased from Amazon and other commercial agencies, book suppliers and online vendors and also via iTunes. Many titles are free to acquire and are usually download from websites and online libraries. ĮBooks are now commonplace and very popular with people who wish to read one or many books, in any location at any time and in any lighting conditions ( Note: eInk are difficult to read without a light source). One early e-book implementation was the desktop prototype for a proposed notebook computer, the Dynabook, in the 1970s at PARC: a general-purpose portable personal computer capable of displaying books for reading. Personal computers and some mobile phones can also be used to read e-books.Īmong the earliest general e-books were those in Project Gutenberg, in 1971. E-books are usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or e-book devices. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as 'an electronic version of a printed book,' but e-books can and do exist without any printed equivalent. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital.

doc fileĪn electronic book (also e-book, E-book, EBook, eBook, digital book) is a text and image-based publication in digital form produced on, published by, and readable on computers or other digital devices. Inclusive Technology text and media supportsĭownload this document as an MS Word. EBook Formats, Electronic Publishing Software and Portable Readers & Devices

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