e Book

An E-book is an electronic version of a book that can be read on a computer or other device. Unlike traditional books, there is no standard format. Adobe, Microsoft, and others use their own formats and Amazon, Sony, and others have issued portable E-book readers with proprietary formats. In addition, digital rights management may not allow works to be shared with others who have the same device.

The advantages of an E-book include bookmarking, annotation by the reader, full text searching, and adjustable type size. Portable devices allow the user to carry and access numerous books in a minimal amount of space compared to the size and weight of paper books. Users also can obtain their reading material, some for free, by downloading rather than going to a brick-and-mortar store or having it shipped to them.

Criticisms of the E-book include readability issues, battery life, and the inability for some graphics or other content to be reproduced. In addition, while the cost of an E-book is generally less than the physical copy, there are complaints of price given the comparative cost of production and distribution. To date, though, one of the biggest criticisms is that it's hard to curl up with an E-book.

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  Sonys already made its commitment to the ePub e-book format fairly clear, but it does still have a lingering problem with some older e-book readers that dont support the format. While some of those are beyond hope, the company does now have an upgrade available for the PRS-500 , although its not quite as simple as ...
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• Sony offering ePub upgrade / trade-in program for PRS-500 e-reader

  
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  Sony’s already made its commitment to the ePub e-book format fairly clear, but it does still have a lingering problem with some older e-book readers that don’t support the format. While some of those are beyond hope, the company does now have an upgrade available for the PRS-500 , although it’s not quite as ...
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• QUANTITATIVE FINANCIAL ECONOMICS: STOCKS, BONDS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE

  
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• A Short History of Ebooks: from the French-speaking, European and International perspective

  
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• THE HANDBOOK OF FIXED INCOME SECURITIES

  
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• MODERN ACTUARIAL RISK THEORY

  
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• MARKET-CONSISTENT ACTUARIAL VALUATION

  
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• If you want to send blogs to Kindle for PC…

  
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  Got an Amazon blog subscription and want it to show up in Amazon’s Kindle for PC program , not just your Kindle? Well, the secret is to use the Manage Your Kindle page . At the very least it can send a day’s worth of postings to the app—I don’t know about blog subscriptions on a permanent basis. You might ...
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• The future of literary agents: Will they have to adjust to e-books? Or vice versa? Or will both scenarios happen?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Literary agent Richard Curtis says agents will make more books available in E when publishers are readier to pay decent advances for digital books. “I’ve known for ten years what’s been holding agents back from plunging into e-book pool,” he writes in the wake of Amazon spending more than 10K to fly some ...
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