E-Books

E-books are arising as one of the most popular pieces of literary technology in the world. An e-book is a digital object with text or other contents that you would normally find in a hardcopy in the form of a book. E-books have in-use features that include the ability to search and cross reference different pieces of information. You have the ability to use hyperlink texts, bookmarks, annotations, highlights, multimedia objects, and even interactive tools. E-books are said to be one of the most significant developments in the literary world in hundreds of years. As incredible as the concept of the e-book is, it has developed greatly over the years that it has been around. In the beginning stages of the e-book, it did not quite reach the expectations. It was expected to make about a billion dollars, but only reached approximately twelve million dollars. Issues affected the e-book’s success greatly. Some examples of these issues include the Internet and the World Wide Web. However, over the past few years, the e-book has become more and more popular. The nature of the content has become extraordinary and the accessibility of the product has become much better. The vast improvement of these two aspects of the e-book has improved the popularity of the product because the advances have made this product take leaps ahead of the Internet and World Wide Web. E-books have risen largely in the academic world. Professors choose to use e-books in their classes instead of textbooks and other hardcopy books. The development of this product is making its movements to become better and more useful than laptops or any desktop computers. The product of the e-book has made unbelievable improvements, but it also has an outstanding future and can improve greatly and will have a great future. The market for the e-book seems as it will be able to mature in the next few years (1). Some examples of these e-books would be Sony Reader and Kindle 2. Academic publishers have embraced the concept of the e-book and will increase the demand by a great deal because these products are almost becoming second nature for professors. The e-book has had a great journey over the years and seems like it will only get better (2).

1. http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=235
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book