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Electronic Books, better known as EBooks, have begun to revolutionize the methods by which people read. The matter of convenience has been a big selling point for eBooks, because it is much easier to carry around a laptop or eBook reader rather than to carry a large amount of books. However, as with all new technological advances, the eBook has both proponents and opponenets.
Electronic text should be based on interaction, hypertext linking, navigation, search, and connections to online services and continuous updates. These new-media capabilities allow for much more powerful user experiences than a linear flow of text. Linear text may have ruled the world since the Egyptians learned to produce arbitrarily long scrolls of papyrus, but it's time to end this tradition. Nobody has time to read long reports any more: information must be dynamic and under direct control of the reader, not the author.
Two types of electronic books do make sense:
Print-on-demand books distributed through local print shops or directly from the publisher. This is a way to keep a large number of backlist books in print without tying up countless pallet locations: as long as a book sells a few copies a year, it's worth keeping in the online catalog and allocating some megabytes for its image files.
Downloadable audio files can replace books-on-tape. There is no reason to ship tapes around or wait for them to be manufactured: a popular book can be downloaded as soon as the voice talent has finished recording a reading. Considering how relatively small audio files are, readings for a longish commute can be downloaded from the Internet to a carPC in a few minutes.
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