Wednesday, July 25, 2007

What are eBooks?

http://live.pirillo.com/ - An eBook is a book, or text put into a book format, that is in an electronic format which you can read on a mobile device or on your computer. Most eBooks nowadays are in the Portable Document Format (PDF), although some of them are still distributed as executable files.

If you're looking for free eBooks, you'll want to check out the Gutenberg project.

Why would you want to use an eBook as opposed to a physical book? Generally, it's much easier to search for information in an eBook format than searching through a bunch of index pages.

Is the eBook going to overtake the old physical book? Well, that remains to be seen: current eReaders are flawed in many ways and that will only help slow the adoption of eBooks.

What do you think? Will eBooks take over the world?

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