Printed and e-books

1. Advantages of E-books
by Mihailo

2. 1. E-books promote reading. People
are spending more time in front of
screens and less time in front of
printed books.
2. E-books can be hyper-linked, for
easier access to additional
information.

3. • E-books make reading accessible to persons
with disabilities. Text can be re-sized for the
visually impaired. Screens can be lit for
reading in the dark.

4. • 3. E-books allow publishers to publish (and
readers to read) works by a larger number of
authors, and works on a wider variety of
topics. Critics of traditional book publishing
(such as Jason Epstein and Andre Schriffin)
state that economic pressures have reduced
and limited the number of authors and topics
that traditional publishers will now produce.

5. • Ebooks, with their capacity for storage,
encourage the publishing of books with many
pages, books that might be too expensive to
produce (and purchase) in paperback.

6. • E-books are cheaper to produce. Thus, small
presses can attempt to compete with media
giants.
• E-books can be annotated without harming
the original work.