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The online revolution brought about by the world wide web accompanied by
other advancements in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
is having a deep impact on the publishing industry. Readers are enjoying
the fruits in the form of online journals and databases. Though the
development in the area of e-books is not so rapid, yet people have started
realizing its potential as an efficient & effective tool for knowledge storage
and dissemination. More and more publishers are now coming up with ebook
solutions for academic institutions and libraries too have started to
develop collection development policies for e-books. The production,
dissemination and consumption of e-books will increase substantially when
certain issues regarding universal standard and copyright are resolved and
we are in a better position to handle the e-books. Libraries will also look
forward to more affordable and useful subscription policy for acquiring
electronic books. At present there are several formats for e-books, many
softwares available for e-book reading. Like Open Access journals, there
are many e-books projects which offer free online books for reading and
downloading which have been discussed in the present paper. The paper
also discusses the commercial e-book publishers and the advantages of ebook
subscription for academic libraries. |
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