The publishing process and how to build e-books using e-book compilers are explained. This is followed by a discussion on electronic publishers (e-publishers), electronic bookstores (e-bookstores) and digital libraries where e-books can be acquired and purchased. Different types of e-book formats and standards are detailed.
#EINK BOOKS NEOBOOK SOFTWARE#
This paper starts with discussion of hardware and software based e-book readers.
dedicated readers (see section 2), personal computers or personal digital assistants) the physical device used to read a publication is called a reading device (e.g.a paperless version of a book, article, magazine, etc.) is called publication the digital content which users read (i.e.The Open eBook (OEB) Forum avoids using the term e-book because different people use the term differently. learning environments which have an application containing a multimedia database of instructional resources that store pre-captured multimedia presentations about topics in a book.a collection of reactive pages of electronic information that exhibit many of the characteristic features and properties of a conventional book.any kind of digitised information ranging from a CD-ROM title to an online interactive database or a collection of Web pages.Another recent interpretation of an e-book is the "print-on-demand" book where the contents are stored in a system connected to a high-speed, high-quality printer, from which printed and bound copies are produced on demand with the possibility of buying chapter-by-chapter, customised books (Hawkins 2000a).Į-books are also defined diversely by researchers to fit their own expectations.
#EINK BOOKS NEOBOOK PORTABLE#
Recently, the definition of an e-book has been extended to include book titles that are available online, that can be read as email, can be retrieved by a portable electronic reading device, or as a file that can be downloaded on to a computer ( Carvajal 1999, Allen 2000, Clister 1999). Then, the term also began to encompass multimedia, hypertext or hypermedia systems that are based on a book metaphor. Initially, paper books that had been converted to a digital format, usually through digitising processes which allow them to be displayed on computers, were defined as e-books.
This in turn has resulted in a collection of hybrid definitions of e-books. There is a growing interest in converting paper books to bytes (Carvajal 1999) as well as writing new titles in digital form. By using one of the compilers, the use of e-books to improve the interaction between educators and distance learning students in terms of access to teaching and learning materials and submission of assignments is also demonstrated. It also reports an evaluation to test the usability of different types of e-book compiler software. The paper discusses where to acquire e-book technology, and how to create e-books. E-books are gaining wider interest since the introduction of portable electronic reading devices and software-based readers that provide users with more realistic book reading experiences. **School of Management, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UKĮmail: potential for distance learning students to use e-books is explored. (*also attached to School of Information Technology, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia) E-Book Technology and Its Potential Applications in Distance Education: Shiratuddin: JoDIĮ-Book Technology and Its Potential Applications in Distance EducationNorshuhada Shiratuddin,* Monica Landoni, Forbes Gibb and Shahizan Hassan**Ĭomputer and Information Sciences Department, University of Strathclyde,
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