Ebooks: Changing the
dimension of reading
Anish
Raj Shrestha
A
handful of book is very hard to handle and carry, a good book can be hostile
carrying for a long time, then what if a 1000 books has to be carried, is it
possible for a men? Answer would be no, if we were some 50 yrs. ago but since
were are at this time it just normal, but make sure that one must have eBook
reader in his gadget. Then the world of book is yours now.
eBooks
are the digital version or the electronic version of the books, copied from the
printed book or can be eversion too. Viewing into the website eBook is defined
as, “An eBook
is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can
be read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader.”
The
thousands of online bookstore, free eBooks have settled the transportation cost
to visit bookstore and can visit thousand book sites and read thousand books
with the simple click and touch.
With
the visionary project called “Project Gutenberg” launched by Michael hart in
1971 AD to create the electronic version of literary works and other books to
read worldwide started the era of eBooks. The text#1 of that project is first eBook.
Since the Amazon.com start selling the eBooks becoming the first online books
store started the era of commercial
eBooks.
With
the use of Internet the world has became small village, now the people started
publishing their own books and sell them in eversion with no need of
publishers. This also helped the people in rural places or people from far
places to study books, and this has broadened the horizon of the book and book
reading habits. With the technological advancement now the reader and the
writer can exchange the feedback easily. One can search the books one like to
read in the search engine and can find the books staying at
room/bathroom/balcony or in the roof or can even read the downloaded version in
absence of the Internet too.
People
in the least development countries like Nepal and especially the rural areas of
it are having an advantage to read the world renown books in their farm and
barn. Similarly the world can be fascinated with the books published by such
people with the help of Internet and eBooks. People have started to publish
only electronic version of the books these days with no hardcopy. So, the
eBooks have changed the spectrum of publishing, reading, viewing and selling of
the books. So the bookstores also have changed their module of selling and
publishing the books. But there are few who do so. But with this invent has
affected the bookstore very much; online piracy, hacking, and even the less
demand of the printed books. Paper factory are also been affected with it. But
nevertheless the inventions of the computer, laptop, tablets, smartphone and
kindles have made people synchronize their life and study in one small area.
