What are the advantages of e-books?

With the rapid development of electronic technology and the popularization of computers, paper, which used to be the main carrier of information, began to pale in comparison and gradually gave way to electronic media.

Now, some developed countries have introduced electronic books and electronic newspapers to the market, and the "paperless" era of mankind is approaching.

Compared with paper, electronic media has large capacity, small size, fast retrieval, easy to copy and save, and also has audio and video functions.

The British "Oxford English Dictionary" has 20 volumes, weighs 62 kilograms, and contains 60 million words. This huge work is very inconvenient to read, but now it has been stored on a palm-sized CD-ROM, which makes it extremely convenient to read. You can read the entire book in a few seconds. If you need to copy, just push a few buttons.

A single-sided 14-inch (1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters) optical disc can store the contents of tens of thousands of books.

Someone once recorded 50,000 famous paintings and famous photography on a CD.

Now, it doesn’t take many CDs to “hold” information equivalent to all the books in a library.

Major newspapers in the United States and many countries are publishing electronic newspapers one after another. They do not require paper, printing, binding, transportation, or distribution. They only need to input the text to be published into the computer according to a certain format and send it to the network. , the publishing task is completed, and readers around the world can see it in an instant.

In 1994, there were 3,150 electronic newspapers in the United States, seven times the number in 1991. People in the newspaper industry believe that electronic newspapers have strong competitiveness and a huge potential market.

Today, with the development of computer networks, online books have also appeared.

On February 15, 1997, Writers Publishing House and Yinghaiwei Information and Communication Company cooperated to put the novel "The Key", which has attracted much attention from readers, online. This is the first novel online in my country. From now on, Internet users around the world can read contemporary Chinese novels on their computers.

In late February 1997, Shenzhen’s Haitian Publishing House also made the author’s novel available online.

Shanghai Gundam's "Today on the Bund" photo album was published in the online magazine "Shanghai Window".

At the same time, people are also very fond of reading online.

There are many advantages to reading online:

First, there are no national borders here, and you can read books from all over the world.

Second, it saves you the trouble of buying books, storing books, checking books, transporting them, mailing them, etc.

Third, the query speed is very fast, which is incomparable with traditional methods.

Fourth, the newly emerging multimedia method, which integrates images, sounds, and text, can increase reading interest, reduce reading burden, and make abstract concepts and things vivid and concrete.