E-Books and E-readers
By
Mr. Bill Koch
What you have probably seen...
History
Project Gutenberg- Early as1971
Library of Congress
Creating backups for special interest groups
On CD-ROM
Internet created popularity
1998-Rocket ebook introduced unsuccessfully
2000- Stephen King's Riding the Bullet released
digitally
2007-Amazon releases Kindle
2009- Kindle 2 and Nook released
2010- Ipad creates e-books app
Googlebooks is launched
Rocket e-book
4mb of flash memory= 10
books
Big Decisions
$$ vs. Features
E-Books
”an electronic version of a printed book”
-Availible as .pdf .txt.
-Cheap, and permanent
-Never sold out
-Can be free, Expired copyrights
E-bookstores?
Purchase all e-books from internet
i.e. Barnesandnoble.com
ebooks.com
gutenberg.org (free books)
Often Cheap and Easy. No lines. All in stock
Increasing amount of E-textbooks
Important features
-Size matters
-Screen (glare vs.non glare)
-Cost
-Battery life
Who are the E-Readers?
5% are 18-24
89% are 24-55
6% are Silver Surfers (55+)
Most popular e-reader is Kindle(47%), then iPad,
then Sony reader.
Drawbacks of E-Books
-Cost/benefit for light readers
-Harder for lending books
-All the eggs are in one basket
-Difficult switch for technology illiterate
-Not environmentally friendly!
Green or not green?
ebook readers need to
Materials have around 50-60
books to keep their
+construction
worth.
+charging
+disposal
Best bet?
=
NO!
Go to the Library
Resources
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/04/opi
nion/04opchart.html?scp=1&sq=how%20green%2
0is%20my%20ipad&st=cse
http://www.acadia.org/competition-
98/sites/integrus.com/html/library/tech/www.rocket
-ebook.com/enter.html
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_us1
242960
gutenburg.org