30 Benefits of E-books

In the spirit of Read an E-Book Week which runs from March 2-8, Epublishers Weekly comes up with 30 Benefits of Ebooks. Here are the top 10:

  1. Ebooks promote reading.
  2. Ebooks are good for the environment.
  3. Ebooks preserve books.
  4. Ebooks, faster to produce than paper books, allow readers to read books about current issues and events.
  5. Ebooks are easily updateable.
  6. Ebooks are searchable.
  7. Ebooks are portable.
  8. Ebooks (in the form of digital audio books) free you to do other activities while you are listening.
  9. Ebooks can be printable.
  10. Ebooks defy time: they can be delivered almost instantly.

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One Response to “30 Benefits of E-books”

  1. David Di Muro Says:
    March 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    I think point 4 is the only one really not valid. if you want to read about current issues and events, you would just use the web in general, not an ebook.

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