If you go to Google Books on the web, you can view a very large number of
electronic books or ebooks and draw your own conclusions regarding the
differences from seeing a book and its full contents or full text on the
computer as opposed to holding the book in your hand in print.
<http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp>
Here is the article on Ebooks from the Wikipedia
An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook: also ecobook) is the digital
media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are
usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known
as e-book readers or e-book devices.
An e-book is a specialized type of e-text.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Formats
* 3 Advantages
* 4 Disadvantages
o 4.1 Digital rights management
* 5 Production
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References
Continue reading this article at this URL:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book>
In Google Books you can search words and combinations of words just as in
the Google web search engine to find books containing content that meets
your search criteria.
This group of books will take the user of this URL to a group of books
that respond in content to a search of the phrases global warming and
light rail.
<http://tinyurl.com/5ka4j8>
Books 1 - 10 of 220 on "global warming" and "light rail".
I hope that these thoughts will be of some help to you.
You will also find a variety of discussions that include ebooks to be
found at this URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/6nor99>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Jan Szczepanski wrote:
> Could someone explain difference between a book and an
> e-book for me? What does people do with them? Do they use them
> differently? Are the use comparable?
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> De åsikter som framförs här är mina personliga och inte ett uttryck för
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> lis-e-resources is the new name for lis-e-journals from the 1st July 2008
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