E-BOOKS C2

The e-books or ebooks are publications that support the role but not a computer file. An e-book can be a novel, a newspaper article, a technical text ... Its uniqueness is that it has the form of electronic saving and storage occurs, therefore, in a computer: floppy disc, CD-Rom and especially on the Internet.

The most remarkable advantage of these kinds of books is that they are ecologically economic. This means that in their making process, they help to save natural resources like trees, paper or energy. At the same time that they are environmentally friendly, they are light, more comfortable and, at last, cheaper that the traditional books, once you purchase the electronic device.

Talking about the disadvantages, we can say that the most important problem you can find when you get one of these books is that there is a big lack of titles in this electronic format. The reason of this is just the problems that some printing companies are finding when they try to manage the publishing rights of their texts. 

In my opinion, we can conclude that these kind of new reading books are the evolution of the paper ones. The two faces of the coin are, in one way that the e-books are lightly, more comfortable and, the most important issue, they help to keep the environment saving trees. The other face of the coin is that the evolution in the offer of books in an electronically way is working in a dangerous path for the printing industry which trends to disappear.

 

Elsa Salom Pons

2n batx. B