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 Part 1

What is Ebook?
An Electronic Book or eBook as they are universally known is a text-based
publication in digital form.  While they may contain images and graphs of some
kind, mostly their formats lead them to be text-based.

eBooks are designed to be read off an electronically compatible device either

an iPhone, a Kindle eReader, tablet or personal computer. While eBooks are the
actual text and document being read, an E-Reader is a device that makes this
possible. Ebooks are stored as electronic files, they are small and easy to share and
purchase.

So, let’s look more about the history of Ebooks

The First Automated Reader Is Invented

The world’s first automated reader, the precursor to today’s e-readers, was
invented by a woman named Angela Ruiz Robles. Angela had her innovative idea
in Spain in 1949. Angela Ruis Robles was a school teacher, who watched her
students lug textbooks back and forth from school every day. The idea was that her
reader would be far easier to carry for school children, than a number of different
textbooks.

In Angela’s first design, smaller amount of text were printed onto spools and were
operated by compressed air. She made her first prototype in 1949. While this book
was not electronic it is still hailed as the first automated reader.  Her project was
never picked up for mass production and she was never able to get a viable patent
on the design, but there is a photograph of her holding it in 1949 so she can still
claim it.

 Part 2

The Internet and the First eBook is Downloaded

The invention of the internet was the next huge step forward in Ebooks.
Information sharing, and file sharing was the birthplace of Electronic books.

In 1971, Michael Hart, a student at the University of Illinois, was given unlimited

computer time on a huge Xerox mainframe computer in the Materials Research lab
(probably because his brother’s best friend was one of its operators). What might
seem like an incredibly boring time in Internet history, as there were not many
people on the internet in 1971, Michael Hart turned into an incredible opportunity.

When Hart was given a copy of the Declaration of Independence at a grocery store
in the lead up to the local fireworks on July 4th, he found his inspiration.  Hart
came up with a good use of the computer time he had been given. He typed the text
into a computer, all in capitals as there was no lower-case option at the time, and
sent out a message on ARPAnet saying that it was now available to download.  Six
people took him up on the offer and downloaded the text.  The world’s first e-book
was born.

Hart then set about typing up more texts to make them electronically available.
His entries included The Bill of Rights, the American Constitution and the
Christian Bible.  What he created was far more than an electronic text document,
what he created was an idea.  The idea of not just using computers to crunch
numbers and deal with data, but to get computers sharing text and literature.

What Happened Next on the TimeLine?

1993

BiblioBytes launched a website to sell ebooks over the internet, the first company
to create a financial exchange system for the net.

1999

American publisher Simon & Schuster created a new imprint, iBooks, and became
the first trade publisher simultaneously to publish titles in ebook and print format.
Featured authors included Arthur C Clarke, Irving Wallace, and Raymond
Chandler.  Oxford University Press offered a selection of its books over the
internet through net Library.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in America held its first ebook
conference. Dick Brass of Microsoft declared that ebooks were the future of
reading. “We are embarking on a revolution that will change the world at least as
much as Gutenberg did,” he declared, and predicted that by 2018, 90% of all books
sold would be Ebooks.

This number, 90% fails to take into consideration the very stable and profitable
Gift Book Market. 40% of the paper book market is what is called a ‘gift
purchase’. People buy each other books – and they don’t buy each other
EBooks. This market of bookselling has not been affected by Ebooks and ebooks
and still have not tapped into this market.

 Part 3

eBooks and how they change the way we talk about reading
Pages do not exist in E-Books, and the orientation of the reader within the text can
be altered depending on adjustments made to the font size and layout.  Therefore,
the location of the reader throughout the text is displayed as a percentage of the
whole text.

The rise of e-readers has prompted speculation about the ways the mind processes
words on a screen compared to words in paper books–the concern that holding
a physical book promotes understanding in a way that staring at a screen does not.
The physicality of the book, sparks the reader to see the text not only for its content
but as an object as well.

A recent study by a researcher suggests that e-readers do not hinder reading

comprehension, at least in short passages of text. As research like this gains
ground, the use of e-readers will only increase, and with it, new ways of
conceiving of and talking about reading will surface in the language, and in turn,
enter dictionaries.

Why Ebooks are better than traditional books?

Here are some reason explain why nowadays people prefer ebooks than printed
book.
  eBooks Are More Portable Than Print and Have Built-In Dictionaries
 There Are No Late Fees for Library eBooks
 eBooks Take Up Much Less Space
 You Can Customize Font Size and Style in eBooks
 eReaders Can Be More Environmentally Friendly Than Print Books
 eBooks Can Be Read in the Dark
 New Releases Are Usually Cheaper as eBooks

While eBooks are unlikely to ever totally replace the physical books, their
continued development will surely create new and interesting ways for people to
consume content.