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Books
online
Your
favorite books are now well within your reach. Books
online has bring you closer to the treasure of millions
of precious books that can quench your thirst and
fuel your hunger for reading more. The technology
of information dissemination has made possible a paradigm
shift in how books are published. Our goals are to
help make this technology available for the first
time through books online. Books have been published
in the same way since Guttenberg invented movable
type. The process is for a publisher to select a book
from an author, set it in type, print it in at least
some modest volume and then to offer it for sale in
the marketplace. Expensive, time consuming, difficult
to distribute. But, easy to read, you can carry it
to bed, on airplanes or where ever. But at books online,
you can have access to the world of books at the click
of mouse.
The
advent of computers and the net makes possible a whole
new form of electronically distributed print on demand
publishing. At books online, we plan to take books
and to make them available for down line loading or
to offer it in (more or less) traditional printed
form. No longer is it necessary to print large volumes,
we (or you) can "print" books on demand.
Indeed, books online has revolutionized the concept
of gaining access to books. We have free books, and
plan to have books for which we will have to charge.
Books online has all the ingredients to become the
most sought after online bookstore. With books on
varied subjects, multiple topics and different genres,
it is on its way to become the favorite destination
for the book lovers.
Free
books at books online are those that the author or
other person has chosen to provide free. That is,
they may be not copyrighted, or the copyright may
have expired. Or alternatively, the books may be copyrighted
but the author or publisher may be offering the book
free for some other reason. Copyright expired books
usually means that the author has been dead for more
than 50 years, or that the book was published by a
Governmental agency. You may download these books
from books online and use them as you wish. The law
allows for the distribution of older books without
restriction. Shakespeare, the classics, Government
publications can be had without restriction from books
online. So can the memoirs of the Civil War generals,
the plays of Aristophanes -- Oh, if we only had one
single copy of some of the plays that were in the
Great Library of Alexandria. So enjoy reading!
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