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- 1. E-books Mark S. Zinzow February 12, 2014 http://slideshare.net/msz
- 2. E-book Defined http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book “An electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices.”
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- 4. Why E-books? ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Paper books are bulky, heavy, expensive, and not as ubiquitous as the Internet. You can carry many more e-books when traveling. You can search e-books for quotes, or analyze them with software. Free ebooks can be reproduced and shared at negligable cost and effort, providing knowledge or entertainment to potentially millions of people. Eco-friendly – Save a Tree! Democratic – free e-books are available to anyone with Internet Access. E-books can be more accessible via braile or text to speech.
- 5. Sources to Obtain E-books ● Collections ● Search Engines ● Publishers ● Libraries ● Universities Open Education
- 6. Collections ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Internet Archive Project Gutenberg Librivox free audiobooks WikiBooks The World Public Library Association Amazon's list of Free eBook Collections Calibre Free Library
- 7. Search Engines Books.google.com ● http://www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/ ● Smashwords - Crowd Sourced DRM-free E-books ● http://rapidlibrary.biz/ (Unsafe?) ● http://inkmesh.com/free-ebooks/ (stale) ●
- 9. ● Search operators: e.g. Filetype:ppt|pdf (not epub) Scholar.Google.Com ● Books.Google.Com ● Google Custom Search ● Google Ebooks Search Engine ●
- 10. DRM Free Publishers ® O'REILLY (Note: These are both FREE E-books!) ● Baen Books ● https://www.google.com/search?q=drm+fre ● http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/10/l ist-of-drm-free-publishers/ ●
- 11. Libraries Monroe County (NY) Library System (local) ● Open Library - Over 1 million free titles! Many scanned books unavailable elsewhere ● EBook Lending Libraries ● List of Libraries that offer non-resident cards ● BiblioTech - first U.S. public digital library ● Most libraries use either the OverDrive Media Console or Adobe® Digital Editions software for DRM. ●
- 12. Universites/Open Education Open.edu ● openstaxcollege.org ● TextbookRevolution.org ● BookBoon.com ● MIT OpenCourseWare ● U. of M. Open Textbook Library ● Many more... (search for Free Textbooks) ●
- 13. E-book Software/Apps ● ● ● FBReader - free multiplatform e-book reader supporting popular e-book formats like ePub, fb2, mobi, html, plain text, and a lot more. Calibre - free multi-platform e-book reader, organizer/database, format converter, editor http://lifehacker.com/55099 65/how-can-i-convert-pdfsand-other-ebooks-to-theepub-format
- 14. ® Legal Terms & Issues © ● ● ● ● ● DRM – Digital Rights Management = Copy Protection DMCA – Digital Millennium Copyright Act – Robots generating take down requests with about 37% unjustified. Price Fixing / Antitrust - Attorneys General and Class E-book Settlements https://ebooksagsettlements.com/ http://www.techurls.com/news/136849 Commercial e-books are licensed, not sold! http://toc.oreilly.com/2012/12/ebook-lending-vsownership.html
- 15. Piracy & Safety ● You can steal commercial e-books with torrents, from Usenet, TOR archives, or file sharing sites, but ... ● ● ● You may get Malware such as a Virus or Trojan Horse. Your ISP (Internet Provider, e.g. TWC, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc.) will impose penalties under the Copyright Alert System (CAS) a.k.a. “Six Strikes”. You could be subject to lawsuits and criminal penalties.
- 16. Project Gutenberg How you can help create E-books Distributed Proofreaders Self-Publishing Portal www.petascale.org/presentations/g Many sites redistribute PG material in different ways like: http://manybooks.net/