E Books : New Media ecosystem

The Internet, in its most prevalent use is the widest and the most readily accessed platform of media available, it provides all sharing of all sorts of media, ranging from text, audio, videos, and even other interactive medias.

The media has long been one of the biggest business industries, and like every business, everyone has to adapt and utilize the internet to survive the competition. This has been the case for the music industry several years ago, and more recently the literature industries.

eBooks.com

E-books, are simply digital copies of books, not much can be compared between it and the hardcopy version, as they are, mostly the same, provides the same or sometimes more features by digital links.

Picture of Hardcopy

-hardcopies - too much trouble?

When compared to their hardcopy counterpart, -put survey (reference) finds that they prefer ebooks, and the only downside to this transition is a slight change of habit, such as taking “less bites more frequently”

So its all well for the transition, many claims that eBooks can adequately replace their older counterpart without much trouble, even with some little disagreements here and there. However, what of the business point of view? The biggest headache for this industry is just like the case for other media industry, its piracy.

Existing copies of

So might be the future of literature industries? Thankfully, they do have a solution:

Online Libraries :

-UniSA Online Library and Questia Online Library

Online libraries are the future business forms of the literature industry, they are basically trying to switch from single book sales to a service access to all the professional source of information you would need.

Students and researchers are amongst those who might find this service very useful; recent trend shows that the use of these online libraries are encouraged and supported by higher education curriculums among the world.

Take for example: THIS ASSIGNMENT!

Bibliography:

eBooks.com Digital Bookstore

http://www.ebooks.com/

UniSA Online Library

http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/

Questia Online Library

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp