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The spread of information technology has resulted in the rising popularity over e-books. E-books carry many advantages over conventional printed books.
Unlike the usual printed books, e-books can contain not just text and images, but also multimedia sound and video files. This revolutionizes the art of book reading. Some advanced e-books also have flash applications that allow the reader to “interact” with the contents, such as allowing the reader to drag images around using the mouse and other such features. The entire concept of a book changes with e-book.
The second major advantage of e-book and a major reason for their soaring popularity is the low costs. Unlike printed books that is costly, more so in the case of color images, the cost to develop a full color multimedia e-book is minimal. Transmission of e-books is also easy and can be downloaded from the internet or sent as emails. The shipping costs and efforts, as well as the waiting time all goes.