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50 Benefits of Ebooks
A Thinking Person’s Guide
to the Digital Reading Revolution
Edition: September 2009
by Michael Pastore
with an Afterword by Michael S. Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg
Paperback, 372 pages
Ebook editions (PDF and EPUB)
51,000 words.
ISBN: 978-0-927379-17-5
Ebook in formats PDF and EPUB
The ebook editions contain all the same content as the 372-page paperback.
50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. The work focuses on 3 areas:
1) the new, useful and most interesting aspects of the ebook experience;
2) the free (and approaching low-cost) ebooks that might inspire a genuine publishing revolution; and
3) how reading good books (whether made of paper or of bytes) might transform our culture and our personal lives.
This book is being published in paperback, and as an ebook, in the formats PDF and EPUB. The ebook version is 1/5th the price of the paperback.
The book’s companion blog and website, (EpublishersWeekly.net) advises readers NOT to buy the pocket-sized 372-page paperback, which costs $ 20. The ebook version costs four dollars, saves trees, and contains all the same content as the paperback — except the paper!
28 Chapters :: 5 Sections :: 51,000 Words
The book’s 28 chapters are organized into five sections:
A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books
B. Reading Ebooks
C. Ebooks for Authors and Publishers
D. The Value of Reading
E. The Education of an Ebooklover
Ebook newcomers will find the basics here. Scholars and mothers, concerned about the dumbing effects of technology, will be gripped by the essay “The Monster Reads!”. And ebook professionals can debate and debunk the author’s wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by devouring the essay: “Publishing Ebooks — Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009 .”
Author Michael Pastore writes:
“I love paper books, and I hope that they are never completely replaced by their electronic progeny. Nevertheless, every day, ebooks are growing in use, in sales, and in significance. After years of sputtering, the Digital Reading Revolution has at last arrived. 50 Benefits of Ebooks is your friendly and reliable guide.”
Praise and Mentions
Visit this page on the book’s companion website, to read praise and mentions from around the world.
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