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  • Book & e-Book cover design thumbnails for web and marketing...
  • Book & e-Book cover design artwork or pre press files including front, back, and spine delivered ready-to-print as digital files.
  • Original artwork
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...what is E-book...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook or ebook), also known as a digital book, is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, sometimes restricted with a digital rights management system. An E-book, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English, is "an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a personal computer or hand-held device designed specifically for this purpose"[1] E-books are usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or e-book devices. Some personal computers and cell phones can also be used, especially to read documents in pdf format.

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Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques, and other subjects.

Numerous e-book formats emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software companies such as Adobe's PDF format, and others supported by independent and open-source programmers. Multiple readers naturally followed multiple formats, most of them specializing in only one format, and thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to exclusiveness and limited readerships of e-books, the fractured market of independents and specialty authors lacked consensus regarding a standard for packaging and selling e-books. E-books continued to gain in their own underground markets. Many e-book publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain. At the same time, authors with books that were not accepted by publishers offered their works online so they could be seen by others. Unofficial (and occasionally unauthorized) catalogs of books became available over the web, and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public.

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As of 2009[update], new marketing models for e-books were being developed and dedicated reading hardware was produced. E-books (as opposed to ebook readers) have yet to achieve global distribution. Only three e-book readers dominate the market, Amazon's Kindle model or Sony's PRS-500 and Bookeen with Cybook Gen3 and Cybook Opus[2]. However, not all authors have endorsed the concept of electronic publishing. J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated that there will be no e-versions of her books.[3][4]

  • 1998: Cybook / Cybook Gen1 Sold and manufactured at first by Cytale (1998 - 2003) then by Bookeen
  • 1998-1999: Websites selling ebooks in English, like eReader.com and eReads.com.
  • 2000: Stephen King offers his book "Riding the Bullet" in digital file, it only can be read on a computer.
  • 2001: Todoebook.com, the first website selling ebooks in Spanish.
  • 2002: Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.
  • 2005: Amazon bought Mobipocket like a strategic positioning.
  • 2006: Sony presents the Sony Reader with e-ink.
  • 2006: LibreDigital launched BookBrowse as an online reader for publisher content.
  • 2007: Zahurk Technologies, Corp,launched the first digital book library on Internet ‘BibliotecaKlemath.com’, ‘loslibrosditales.com’ and ‘digitalbook.us’
  • 2007: Amazon launched Kindle in US.
  • 2007: Bookeen launched Cybook Gen3 in Europe.
  • 2008: Adobe and Sony agreed to share their technologies (Reader and DRM).
  • 2008: Sony sells the Sony Reader PRS-505 in UK and France
  • 2008: Amazon launched Kindle 2 in US.
  • 2009: Bookeen releases the Cybook Opus in the US and in Europe.
  • 2009: Amazon releases the Kindle DX in the US.
  • 2009: Amazon releases the Kindle 2 International Edition worldwide.
  • 2009: Barnes & Noble releases the Nook in the US.

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