The Who, What And Why Of e-Books                         And Other Important Information                        The Legal Beagles Made Us Say! A lot of people have asked why e-Books? There are many reasons why e-Books are catching on in the public. 1. When you purchase an e-Book, it is instant. You purchase the selected title, download the file and start reading. It is just that quick and simple with OLIN'S 'instant delivery download' feature. Plus there's no shipping and handling costs! 2. e-Books are more affordable than print books. This is very appealing to today's value minded shoppers. For the most part, production costs are less when producing an electronic book. There are no resource costs. The lower prices are especially seen on technical and reference titles. They are usually about half the costs of a print book. 3. Timeless...e-Books are timeless in that they will never fade, become ripped or torn, lose their binding or collect spilled coffee and dust. They also don't have a very large space requirement. Just a couple kb (kilobytes) on a hard-drive. They are also timeless because they will never go out of print. 4. Environment friendly. Because electronic books are electronic, they don't require paper from trees, glue, ink, etc. So resources are saved for other needs and uses. 5. Easy navigation with search, find and bookmark features. Every try to find something in a book using the index or table of contents. Sometimes it can be very difficult. Most e-Book reader programs have a search or find feature that will allow you to type in part of the word or phrase you are looking for or fetch the definition of a word with a simple click. That really cuts down on the guesswork of flipping pages. I know for me, I never have a bookmark when I need one. I use a business card, piece of scrap paper or anything else I can cram into the book. When most e-Book readers have a book mark feature that will save your place. No need to worry about losing it, or it falling out. You can also name the bookmark and have several bookmarks in one book. So...Let's re-cap as well as let you in on the behind the scenes insider-information. Electronic books, or "e-Books" are texts designed to be read solely on a computer screen using proprietary hardware devices, or multipurpose PCs. Purpose built "reader" software attempts to recreate the look of a traditional printed book while also enabling electronic multimedia enhancements. Electronic publishing is a concept still in its relative infancy - partly due to the technology barrier that needs to be overcome by many prospective users. The idea that paper and ink should be forsaken for handheld computers and internet-distributed texts is enough to make readers give an almost luddite shudder. How can any electronic device, with the usual problems of battery-life and customer perceived, poor-quality LCD screens approach the ergonomics and durability of a good quality book? Replacement however, is not the point. Electronic books are set to insidiously work their way into our culture as an accomplice to the printed word, rather than a successor. In many ways it's already happened. Witness the massive success of CD-ROM based encyclopedias which provide a shelf full of texts on a single disc. Instead of the occasional illustration, you receive rich, multimedia presentations. In place of the laborious cross-referencing between volumes, you are only ever a couple of hyper-links away from the information you desire. eBooks provide texts that take up no space beyond that on the hard-drive you store them on, and hence have miniscule physical production costs. They have an amazing potential for enriching the books we read both in the provision of accessory media, and also in their capacity for providing cross-referenced, relevant information at the press of a button. The new translation of Ovid's "The Metamorphoses" which can be found at LIBER is an excellent example of the benefits provided by an e-Book. Within the Glassbook edition of this text are fifteen illustrations from the 1640 George Sandys translation of The Metamorphoses - made possible by the online archives of Vermont University. The fifteen volumes of the work are hyper-linked to a complete mythological index which is in turn linked both to itself and the main text. In total over 12,500 hyper-links are present. Think of the number of pages you'd have to turn to cross-reference anywhere near the same amount of information. And then ask yourself if you'd even bother. Not only can you read an accessible version of one of the greatest works of literature ever written, but you can also get up to speed on Greek Mythology with minimum effort. Try it, you will be pleasantly surprised... Now you truly know what we means when we say... 'A World Of Information Awaits You At OLINS' (And you thought it was only a cute slogan!) LEGAL STATEMENTS: OLIN e-Publishing Company and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following notices, terms, and conditions detailed here. In addition, when you use any OLIN e-Publishing Company's services, you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such service. COPYRIGHT: To read a detailed, legal description on our 'Copyright Policy/Notification', please click here . The following is a brief description taken from the detailed version. 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