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It's a brave new world! The days of a paperback book in your back pocket may be numbered.Do you buy a book for its cover? Or the fine paper it's printed on? Probably not! If you are like most of us, you buy books for their words and pictures, "content". Why pay for the paper?
For years the price of a paper book has steadily risen to over twenty bucks. The vast majority of that money doesn't go to the author; it pays for printing, binding, shipping, etc. You can now just buy the content, at a fraction of the cost of a physical book.
eBooks are rapidly replacing classic paper books. Much as dead trees replaced papyrus, and papyrus replaced stone tablets, this new technology will eventually replace dead trees, and increase our reading pleasure immensely.
eBooks allow us to instantly change the font size, for tired old eyes, as well as other things that just can't be done with static old dead trees.
You can download new books from the following sites for from 2 to 5 dollars, and either read them on your computer or put them in an electronic reader, the size of a small book, and carry it around just like an old paperback.
As the world’s premier provider of electronic books (eBooks), netLibrary helps academic, public, corporate, and private libraries create a richer, more productive learning environment for their patrons. By combining the time-honored traditions of the library system with electronic publishing, netLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. netLibrary’s goal is to be the world’s largest distributor of eBooks, making thousands of titles globally accessible through the Internet.
Glassbook is a software company dedicated to e-books. We build high-fidelity e-book reading software and e-book publishing and distribution software. All of Glassbook's products are based on open standards.
NuvoMedia, Inc. is dedicated to becoming the electronic book distribution solution by providing a networking infrastructure for publishers, retailers and end users to publish, distribute, purchase and read electronic content securely and efficiently over the World Wide Web. A key component of NuvoMedia's distribution model is the Rocket eBook™, a paperback-sized electronic book designed for reading published content, anytime, anywhere.
Personal Publisher™ lets you author in Microsoft Word and publish SoftBook Editions™ for your SoftBook Reader or as Open eBook documents for any Open eBook-compliant device or program. Get the free download and start creating your own electronic books.
