E-Books are the electronic text displayed on the digital media
. Its full form is electronic book and is also called digital book. In order to view and read these electronic books user should have hardware devices known as electronic readers or e-book devices. These e-Books can be read on laptops, personal computers or even on cell phones.
History of e-Books:
Earlier e-Books were written for limited set of audiences or specific set of group. They were used to present information on few subjects such as on science or technology. E-Books were used for preparing technical manuals on manufacturing techniques and other such subjects. Over the years many e-Books proliferated on several subjects. An e-Book was prepared in different formats for different subjects. This resulted in the introduction of multiple formats. E-Book was also supported by many open source programmers or software like Adobe PDF format. This also gave boost to the use of e-Books for various purposes. Many authors began using an e-Book to display their work on the Internet when the publishers denied publishing their work. Many companies started displaying their products and services to introduce them over the Internet.
Different Formats of E-Books:
E-Books have a variety of formats available to present any kind of subject or information. Among many formats main e-Books are in PDF, Image or Open Electronic Book Packages formats. PDF e-Books are commonly used by the people on the Internet. PDF format makes the e-Book easily accessible on multiple formats and keep the contents of the document intact and secure. You can convert Word or any other application to PDF with any PDF Converter tool available. Then with any good computer programming you can convert PDF document into PDF e-Book. Image e-Books exhibit any information using a series of images. These e-Books are used for online art gallery, kids picture books and much more. Open Electronic Book Packages e-Book formats are the ones that display multimedia content. They incorporate audio and video content in the e-Books. This is a good and effective e-Book format when used for presenting interactive educative material and such other materials.