Digital Publishing is fast becoming an important sales and marketing tool in electronic business success. Enter the ebook - a key to delivering secure, high quality information products online.
So what exactly is an ebook? An eBook is an electronic version of a traditional book that can be read by using a computer without being connected to the Internet.
Many ebooks can be viewed straight from a external drives without needing complex plug-in reader software. Ebooks incorporate text, images, sound and hyperlinks to various sections of the book. The links can also act as a gateway to the Internet to refer to other articles or ebooks.
These books are usually downloaded from the Internet and this is why they are easy and fast to access, and accessible from any part of the world.
They can be downloaded on portable devices, and, for this reason, they can be carried like conventional books.
As these e-books do not take much space of computers and portable devices memory, the user can store several e-books and create libraries.
The costs of e-books are much cheaper than printed books.
There are many works available for free on the Internet, especially classic works.
The most common payment method is credit card via the Internet.
This type of publication allows the user to put down notes and include comments on the pages, underline words and look up the meaning of words by clicking on them.
Unlike conventional books, e-books do not take any room and they do not wear out over time.