Electronic books are also called e-books. To put it simply, the so-called e-books must be downloaded in the form of electronic files through special reading software (reader) to common platforms through network links, such as personal computers (PCs) and notebook computers. (Note-book), or even a personal digital assistant (PDA), a WAP mobile phone, or any reader that can store a large amount of digital reading data (digital reading material), is a kind of traditional paper book. Substitute. Briefly introduce the definition
According to the definition of the General Administration of Press and Publication, e-books refer to publications that digitize text, pictures, sounds, images and other information content, and to embed or download digitized text, pictures, sounds, images, etc. A handheld reader that integrates message content storage media and display terminal.
It consists of three elements:
(1) E-book content, which is mainly produced in a special format and can be disseminated on wired or wireless networks Books are generally organized by specialized websites.
(2) E-book readers, which include desktop personal computers, personal handheld digital devices (PDA), and specialized electronic devices, such as "Hanlin e-books".
(3) E-book reading software, such as Adobe Reader from ADOBE, Glassbook from Glassbook, Microsoft Reader from Microsoft, SReader from Superstar, etc. It can be seen that whether it is the content of e-books, reading devices, e-book reading software, or even online publishing, they are all labeled e-books.
According to available data, China has become the second largest single country market for e-books in the world. In 2009, China's e-book shipments reached 3.82 million units. In the first half of 2010, shipments accounted for more than 20% of the global total, second only to the United States, and the annual shipment volume is expected to reach 9.1 million units!
Features
Convenience, you can search content, change font size and font style.
It has large capacity and can be downloaded online at any time without geographical restrictions, saving you the trouble of traveling and traveling.
Reduce the cost of books and make them cheap.
Exquisitely designed, flexible and versatile, with multimedia capabilities.
Save the space needed to save books.
E-books achieve zero product inventory, are distributed simultaneously around the world, and are convenient and fast to purchase.
Save paper, reduce the burden on the earth, zero tree felling, truly environmentally friendly and low-carbon.
Classification
E-books generally have two meanings, one refers to e-books, and the other refers to handheld readers that specialize in reading e-books. The main formats of e-books include PDF, EXE, CHM, UMD, PDG, JAR, PDB, TXT, BRM, etc. Currently, many popular mobile devices have e-book functions. E-books can be supported by mobile terminals in their reading formats. Common e-book formats are UMD, JAR, and TXT.
An e-book is a portable handheld electronic device, specially designed for reading books. It has a large-screen LCD display and a built-in Internet chip. It can conveniently purchase and download digitized books from the Internet, and The large-capacity memory can store a large amount of digital information, and can store about 30 traditional books at a time. The specially designed LCD technology allows people to read books comfortably for a long time.
The characteristics of e-books, such as portability, ease of use and large capacity, are very suitable for modern life. The development of digital copyright trade and Internet technology allows e-book users to conveniently purchase more e-books at lower prices. Books laid the foundation for the popularity of e-books.
Will e-books really bring about a new way of reading in the Internet age? Can it really replace the traditional way of reading?
Function
Nowadays, domestic PDA products are rich, and they are roughly divided into three types according to their functions:
The first one is mainly for learning, with various English-Chinese translations , dictionaries, etc., such as Haoyitong, Kuaiyitong, etc.;
The second is mainly business games, with functions such as notepad, perpetual calendar, exchange rate, stock market quotes, sending and receiving emails, games, etc., such as Business Pass , managers, celebrities, etc.; the third is a handheld computer with wireless Internet access and WINDONSCE operating system... Some current PDA products have added the function of reading e-books, although it is not perfect yet. After all, EBOOK is in its early stages, and many They are all waiting and watching, waiting for the opportunity and getting ready to go.
Foreign EBOOKs include SOFTBOOK, ROCKETBOOK, MICROSOFTREADER, etc. There is currently no complete EBOOK product launched in China. Can it be developed? Will it be compatible with PDA? Can it develop a reading-focused product? EBOOK. At present, the domestic Ebooks mainly include Foxit Eslick Book and Hanwang e-books.
Third, you can subscribe to numerous electronic journals, books and documents, automatically download the latest news and journals subscribed from the Internet, display full-page text and graphics, and enhance the reading experience through search, annotations and hyperlinks. , using a page turning system, similar to the page turning of paper books, you can download online e-books to the e-reader at any time, and you can also store the books and documents you purchased on the e-reader.
The difference between e-books and e-books
In a nutshell, e-books contain the functions of e-books and also have other functions:
1. Electronic notebooks can not only "read" but also "write". Electronic books generally have thousands of electronic books built-in, and also have the original handwriting function, which can annotate books, handwrite notes, handwritten emails, remote signatures, etc.
2. Electronic notebooks also have functions commonly used in mobile Internet devices such as surfing the Internet, mobile office, stock trading, GPS navigation, playing games, QQ chat, playing movies, listening to music, etc.
At present, Guangxuntong has launched e-books before Microsoft.
Performance Overview Principle
Electronic books, also known as e-books, are made into electronic versions of book content and then sold online. After paying with a credit card or electronic bank, the buyer can download and use a dedicated browser to read offline on a computer or other tools that can add reader applications, such as mobile phones and electronic paper. E-books are different from free online reading today. They are the latest books launched simultaneously with paper versions, so you have to pay a certain fee to read them. Unlike CD-ROM books, e-books are purchased based on the Internet.
E-book functions: You can subscribe to numerous electronic journals, books and documents, automatically download the latest news and journals subscribed from the Internet, display full-page text and graphics, and enhance through search, annotations and hyperlinks. The reading experience adopts a page turning system, which is similar to the page turning of paper books. You can download online e-books to the e-reader at any time, and you can also store the books and documents you purchased on the e-reader. An e-book is an electronic version of a traditional printed book, which can be read using a personal computer or an e-book reader. The reason why it is popular is that e-books allow operations similar to paper books - readers can bookmark a page, take notes, invert a paragraph, and save the selected article.
In addition, the e-book reader includes a built-in dictionary, variable fonts and styles. The main formats of e-books include PDF EXE CHM UMD PDG JAR PDB TXT, etc. Many popular mobile devices currently support its reading formats. At present, most books available online are in PDF format. For example, "E Book Forum" currently provides such e-book downloads. Nowadays, mobile e-books are becoming more and more popular. Most mobile phones with readers support reading e-books in TXT format. Some mobile phones without readers, such as Nokia 5300, can also support e-books by installing specific software such as "MOTO TXT". of reading. Most downloads of e-books in TXT format occur in the form of forums. For example, "Menghian Forum" is a community with relatively complete resources and convenient downloading.
With the popularization of PCs and the continuous advancement of online teaching, electronic textbooks have become increasingly obvious as a direction for the development of e-books. At present, the popularity of portable devices is far from enough, so the development of electronic textbooks is concentrated in colleges and universities. The development of students’ built-in teaching e-learning platform and supporting e-book teaching materials is becoming more and more mature. I believe that it will not be long before In the future, we can see their active presence in online teaching in primary and secondary schools.
Production
The electronic magazine and e-book production software iebook Super Wizard is the world's first professional electronic magazine that integrates the three-dimensional integrated communication system of Internet terminals, mobile phone terminals and digital TV terminals ( Business magazines, picture albums) production and promotion system. It is the only e-book creation software in China that can be browsed on mobile phones.
iebook revolutionaryly adopts the international cutting-edge component design concept, integrates the electronic magazine production process, and implements component design for some similar processes, allowing software users to reuse and efficiently synthesize standardized e-books. ; At the same time, a component-based template library has been established in the software, which comes with multiple sets of exquisite Flash animation templates and Flash page special effects. Software users can realize page design by changing graphics, text, and videos, freely combine them, and present good production effects; the operation is simple and convenient, It can help software users easily create electronic magazines (business magazines, picture albums) that integrate high-definition video, audio, Flash animation, graphics and other multimedia effects.
The operation interface style of the IE window system is more in line with user habits, making it easy for users to learn and quickly master the operation. Create an epoch-making feature that directly generates four communication versions, independent EXE files or direct web online versions for direct browsing. The generated magazine can be viewed directly without any reader or plug-in - open Internet Explorer to read the book! It has become a benchmark in the electronic magazine and e-book industry. With seven years of application experience and the support of tens of millions of users, iebook Super Genie software has become increasingly stable in 2011, and all new features have been perfected. In order to thank users for their long-term love and support, and to continue to listen to users' opinions to improve the functionality and ease of use of the product, iebook's first portal company decided to distribute a completely free full-featured trial version of "iebook Super Elf 2011" to all the public.
Format introduction of e-paper books and e-books
In a broad sense, e-books include e-paper books, but when broken down, the definition of e-books does not actually include e-paper books. Books, specific differences:
To put it simply, an "e-paper book" is an e-reader, an electronic terminal. To put it more bluntly, it is a small digital appliance that can read books; it is a device that uses electronic paper. A new digital reader with a display screen. You can read e-books in most formats on the Internet, such as PDF, CHM, TXT, etc. Compared with traditional mobile phones, mids, umpcs and other devices to read e-books, the advantages of e-book readers using e-paper technology are low radiation, low power consumption, no harm to the eyes, easy to carry, and its display effect is lifelike. It looks the same as a paper book.
In layman terms, e-books generally refer to "electronic books", that is, digital publications. You can also understand them as books that exist in PDF, DOC, CEB, TXT or image formats, which is more direct. Understood as digital text content.
The relationship between electronic paper books and e-books:
1. E-paper books are a display platform for e-books. Readers can hold e-paper books and read the e-books inside;
2. E-books are not only displayed on electronic paper books, but can also be displayed on computers, mobile phones, PDAs and other terminals, which means that you can use computers, mobile phones and other terminals to read e-books;
3. Electronic paper books are also called e-book readers.
Compare
Txt e-books are actually electronic texts without any processing. They are the simplest display text. Its encoding is divided into ansi, unicode, unicode big endian, and utf. -8. These types of codes can be browsed normally on computers. Our computers usually use ANSI encoding, but mobile phones are different. Mobile phones generally default to Unicode encoding. If the encoding is not recognized, garbled characters will appear. Of course, it will appear randomly. With the gradual development of mobile phones, this situation will improve. In short, the easiest way to create txt e-books is to change the encoding to unicode encoding when "save as" the conventionally encoded electronic data.
The advantage is that it is small in size and is the original medium for various e-books. The disadvantages are: no function and not beautiful.
exe e-book is the most complicated to produce among many e-book formats. One kind, but also the most beautiful and versatile one. Its process is to first separate the content text in txt format into multiple TXT texts by chapters, and then make them into a collection of html (page illustrations and e-book covers). ), and finally use the e-book packaging software to create an e-book file with the suffix .exe.
Advantages: It is beautiful and has many functions. It can realize chapter table of contents, page turning and scrolling, and neat layout. It does not require any reading software. Disadvantages: The size is relatively large compared to txt, and it cannot currently be read on mobile phones.
PDF e-books are generally produced with Foxit PDF Editor. They are basically divided into two types: one is a text version, and the other is a more detailed version. Directly photocopy the full text of the paper book into a picture, and assemble it into a pdf e-book.
The advantages are intuitive, with a chapter list, average aesthetics, and average functions. Disadvantages: PDF e-books are the largest in size among all e-book formats. You can read them on your mobile phone by installing a PDF reader
Jar e-books are actually transcoding the txt electronic text into unicod encoding, and then electronically reading it through the mobile phone. The book creation software once again improves the functionality and practicality, and is basically equivalent to an upgraded version of txt e-book.
Compared with txt, the advantage function is that it adds bookmark sectioning function. Disadvantages: only available for viewing on mobile phones, slightly larger than txt format, and cannot be read on a computer
The pros and cons of various e-books
Which format of e-books is better? Nothing is absolutely good or bad. There is no best, only more suitable. If you like to read e-books on your computer and don’t care about aesthetics, I suggest you read e-books in exe or pdf format. If you care about pleasing the eyes, choose exe e-books. If you only like to watch e-books on your mobile phone, it is recommended that you choose txt or jar. If you want to be more detailed, choose jar format. If you are an e-book enthusiast, it is still recommended that you choose exe e-books. The above various e-books are common on the Internet, and there are even more TXT ones, such as Qidian Chinese website, Hongxiu Tianxiang, etc. There are relatively few in exe format, such as 58L e-books, or Wuyou, which are quite good. With the development of the times, our mobile phones will be like computers. In other words, mobile phones and computers are basically equivalent to the difference between small computers and large computers. I believe that by then, the display of so-called e-books in any form will be vast. , there are no media barriers.
File format
Faced with numerous e-book content providers and reading devices, it is necessary for us to understand some common e-book file formats.
Commonly used e-book formats on PC
TXT file format is currently a popular electronic reading file format favored by many people. This format also has the most production tools. of. Its biggest feature is that it is easy to read, simple to produce, and the produced electronic books are quite exquisite. The e-books in this format have embedded reading software, so you can read them without installing a special reader, and there is no high impact on the operating environment. Require.
E-books in TXT format were mainly used for reading text-based books before 2004. However, this type of e-books also has some shortcomings. For example, most TXT files produced by related production software do not support Flash. and Java and common audio and video files, which require IE browser support, etc.
However, after 2004, electronic magazines and digital newspapers became popular. Without exception, they all adopted the EXE format and supported FLASH, multimedia and even scripting languages. The displayed content was richer and the production was quite exquisite. , becoming the most popular electronic magazine format currently. Currently, digital newspapers, periodicals, and books provided by Founder Apabi’s Feiyue, XPLUS, ZCOM and other manufacturers all use this format.
Reading software: Built-in reader, no additional reading software required.
PDF file format
PDF (Portable Document Format) file format is an electronic file format developed by Adobe. This file format has nothing to do with the operating system platform, that is to say, PDF files are universal whether they are in Windows, Unix or Apple's Mac OS operating system. This feature makes it an ideal document format for electronic document distribution and digital information dissemination on the Internet. More and more electronic books, product descriptions, company announcements, online materials, and emails are beginning to use PDF format files. PDF format files have now become a de facto industry standard for digital information