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E-book

Library science

Summary/Abstract: In the last years, we may observe the tendency of E-book, not necessaryto replace, but to complete traditional paper book. Book is transforming froma palpable object into an amount of informations that take a shape only in thevery moment of reading. From this moment, the reader does not read, butexplores; he does not learn, but finds out everything he wants to know byusing his computer’ s links.So, book is changing its definition: it is no longer that piece of paper thatcontains some informations, but the informations themselves.There are a lot of advantages that convince us about the importance ofE-book. Among them, we may mention the possibility of adding images andanimation, diagrams, tables etc. in order to improve the informations’ quality.E-book has the quality of being interactive and while reading it, we mayconnect ourselves to other files.E-book may be protected by a password and represents the best way ofon-line promoting, because it can be accesed by thousands of readers in thesame time. It can be freely accesed, by using Internet, or be paid at aninsignificant price.E-book may be copied in as numerous copies as we need; theinformation it contains are never degraded and we regularly accese the bestvariant, because the content is always brought up-to-date.Probably one of the most important advantage of E-book refers to theminimal costs it implies. We do no longer use paper, so we protect woods; wedo no longer have to make a certain number of copies from the begining andthan keep them on the shelves; we may replace the most valuable ancientbooks by their electronic copies; and, more than that, we may be sure that theinformation is quikly put into circulation.

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