Press Release Summary: You idly page through the scores of novels you downloaded from the Net before you came on holiday. And you idly rub your shoulder, reflecting on all the weight you did not have to lug through the airport because you were not carrying 20 or more different books.
Press Release Body: You idly page through the scores of novels you downloaded from the Net before you came on holiday. And you idly rub your shoulder, reflecting on all the weight you did not have to lug through the airport because you were not carrying 20 or more different books.
You select John Grisham latest lawyer tale, roll over on your front and begin to read. Five minutes later, thoroughly bored by legal blandness, you flip over to some Scottish swearing courtesy of Irvine Welsh. That is better. Not so much a page turner as a real screen scrolled. This is the reading utopia promised by the en masse arrival of e books, heralded as the greatest revolution since the advent of the paperback. Most online book sellers enable you to download books or periodicals from the Net for a fee. They offer illuminated screens for night time reading and the ability to bookmark pages make notes in the margin and search the complete text or visit www.ebook-secrets-revealed.com No more pencil scribbles or dog eared pages. Most are in Abbe PDF Acrobat format.
Already some of you will be squirming in your seats. Reading novels off a screen? Ridiculous. Who would want to take a glorified laptop to the beach or in bed with them when they want a good read? The idea of reading a novel by Dickens from a screen is mad. Maybe. But there is a distinct method in the madness of the e book manufacturers. The reason why they have emerged is the ever increasing prevalence of the Net. Reading has become sexy again, thanks to the Web which, despite all the whiz bang goofiness of animations and streaming audio, still remains a medium primarily of text and pictures you can visit www.profit-pulling-ebooks.com People who complain about children not reading books forget that they are spending an increasing amount of time online, reading web pages, sending email and using search engines, all of which develop literacy.
Thanks to the Net, more and more people are becoming used to the idea of reading from a screen live from many internet libraries, and many thanks to technology, computer monitors have come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years. As such, the arrival of the e book is the natural extension of this secret love affair with the screen. It is easy to see why the e book manufacturers are initially targeting students, academics and business people as their main audiences. There is also a distinct similarity between paperless books and the MP3 music format. Both technologies revolve around a different perspective of books and records. While we are currently used to the idea of a record or book containing a particular chunk of information, technology is changing this. The e book and MP3 are moving towards the concept of the book and music player as simply containers for content, whether it is literary or musical. You buy the device, and then plug in only the titles or tracks you want.
2025
