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Online E-Books
Online
E-Books online have many advantages over paper books
that are a result of their digital formatting. You
save money with no shipping, no taxes, and the lowest
prices. Online E-Books have many features that traditional
paper books do not - you have the freedom to control
the look and feel of your E-Book. You get to enjoy
a new and powerful dimension to the written word.
Thousands of E-Books are downloaded every day, and
an estimated 250 million people will be reading E-Books
by 2005. Discover for yourself how you can get the
most from this amazing new technology. We care about
E-Books because we care about the environment. Save
a tree and read an E-Book. You can help save our planet.
We offer the only comprehensive approach to Online
E-Books that integrates with the time-honored missions
and methods of libraries and librarians. Our vision
is one of enhancing the role of librarians as stewards
of knowledge, supporting their crucial role in serving
millions of people every day who seek information.
As
the world's premier provider of electronic books (eBooks),
Online E-Books helps academic, public, corporate and
special libraries create a richer, more productive
learning environment for their patrons. By combining
the time-honored traditions of the library system
with electronic publishing, We offers an easy-to-use
information and retrieval system for accessing the
full text of reference, scholarly, and professional
books. Online E-Books is a division of OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, a nonprofit organization
that provides computer-based cataloging, reference,
resource sharing and preservation service to libraries
worldwide. We are electronic versions of books that
can be viewed on a computer screen. Publishers, libraries,
and retailers can now produce, manage, and distribute
We to anyone on any computer running Microsoft®
Windows® or Mac OS software. Because Adobe®
eBook software is based on the widely distributed
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) technology, you
can now deliver eBooks with high visual fidelity in
a way that fits your existing workflow.
And,
thanks to digital rights management features, lending
Online E-Books for reading offline is now just as
easy as selling them. Thousands of Adobe PDF ebooks
from leading publishers such as HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill,
Rough Guides, Holtzbrinck Publishers, including St
Martin's Press, Farrar Strauss and Giroux are already
available. Now, libraries will be able to instantly
deliver these existing Adobe PDF ebooks and other
digital materials to patrons. The Online E-Books are
automatically checked in and out, and may be integrated
with a library's existing catalogue system.Through
the library's web interface, patrons use a simple
process to check out and receive ebooks, but do not
need to be connected to the Internet to read them.
Libraries also can set usage rules so ebooks expire
after a certain amount of time or on a specified date.
When the lending license expires, the ebook is automatically
disabled on the patron's computer and returned to
the library catalogue.
However,
you should consider the following questions before
deciding what format you will sell your Online E-Books
in There are no clear standards for file format delivery
of eBooks. If you are concerned about customers and
their friends copying and using your content, then
you should take steps to protect it. Be aware though,
any determined person can and will crack your security.
You want to protect your Online E-Books from the other
95% of the market.If you intend on allowing, and maybe
even encouraging people to use your content and pass
it along (this is a fantastic idea for creating a
viral buzz about you or your business), then any file
format such as .txt or .doc will work fine. If you
do want to take steps to protect your content, there
are really two file format categories to select from:
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Acrobat PDF format - world "de facto" standard
for document reading
- eBook Compiler - proprietary tool that creates executable
(.exe) files for PC's only
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