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Ebooks
These pages are dedicated to literature in digital form (or ebooks). There's an amazing
amount of public domain literature on the Web for free
access! Most is in plain text, but an ever increasing portion is in HTML and other
formats, that you can read on-line or download for offline reading or formatting in a word
processor etc. There are also initiatives for promoting the concept and standardization of
ebooks, as well as many publishers providing ebooks.
Terminology
- Ebook: Multimedia digital document containing text,
pictures, and potentially also audio and/or video; Most free ebooks are either text only
or text with pictures. Commercial ebooks
typically come in proprietary formats for security (DRM) reasons.
- Ebook Reader (sometimes called just Ebook): Dedicated
device for reading ebooks. Could also be special reading software for a desktop or
handheld general device. The trend is towards reading ebooks on general devices (primarily
PDA's).
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