I work at a library and one of the services that we now offer is e-books.
I was just wondering if anyone could explain to me how they work.
2006-06-19 06:30:55 · 8 answers · asked by book reader 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It's a file in PDF format which you can open with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
2006-06-19 06:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An E-book is simply an electronic version of a book - the formats vary between PDF, Word and other 'document' formats and can be read either with normal computer software (Adobe, Word, Notepad etc) or by special viewers.
The issue libraries normally have is that ebooks are very easy to copy and so copyright is impossible to really control.
2006-06-19 06:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
instead of books on tape, E-books are electronic books. Meaning they are usually in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat) and reduce the size of conventional books into compressed data. If you possess any handheld device like cell phones or planners, you can download these books and read them as you would a normal book. Assuming that is you have a battery that can hold a charge long enough for you to finish the book. Just another convenience factor in the ever changing world of electronics.
2006-06-19 06:36:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An ebook is an electronic book. They are in various formats including pdf which is quite popular. They are convenient because you can have many books on a CD for example and never go out of print but the publishers can also place various restrictions on them
2006-06-19 06:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by natsubee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have e-books through school. It is basically books that can only be seen online (with the option to print of course) They are usually in PDF format.
Hope this helps.
2006-06-19 06:36:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
e-book means copy of any book in PDF formate.u can read that book if adobe reader is present in ur computer.
2006-06-19 06:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by cool_ranjan4all 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cd's / dvd's ... matter mostly in pdf format
2006-06-19 06:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by sεαη 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no sorry
2006-06-19 06:33:21 · answer #8 · answered by Jamie-Lee H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋