This article has been written to describe some of the key benefits of e-books and their impacts in our daily life.
Historically books have played a very important role in development of human civilizations and are also a key tool for enhancing human knowledge over the centuries. With the world wide web and internet peaking its boom in late 90s and trending to have electronic versions of many day life functions, it would have been quite unrealistic to see paper books not being overshadowed by e-books. However, it was not only the internet that played its part on promoting e-books, rather there have been a tremendous variety of gadgets ranging from good resolution smart phones to isolate and sophisticated e-readers that have enabled the modern day people to carry almost their own library of the size bigger than many national libraries in the world in their pockets or hand and should bags. If you were able to tell this to a person, of an era about 100 years ago, he would perhaps imagine that all these forms of e-readers might prove among a few great inventions of the modern day world.
E-books not only make you save a great deal of your shelve-space or in some cases an entire room in your house but they prove to be more useful when it comes to portability, imagine if you are a resident in America and visiting Australia for a business trip for about 3 months, would you carry a set of 10-12 paper books with you to serve your appetite for book reading? With all the hectic issues of carrying increased weight of your luggage and in many cases your suitcase space, not many people would answer in a 'big yes'. With the great rate of e-books availability of your choice, the answer shall be a 'yes I'll keep even more than that and that because I have all those in my e-books reader'.
It is not just the space and portability that makes the case of e-books very strong; availability factors make it even more suitable and popular choice. Imagine, all the major books sellers in your country or continent, or even of entire world sitting outside the door of your house for anxiously waiting for your order for a book to be bought and available today. It's even more than that cause you can find the book you are interested in, over the internet, simply pay for it and read it in your e-book reader, be it a smart phone, your PC, office laptop, a personal net-books or a sophisticated e-book reader.
Amazingly, e-books have not only increased the availability factor of books for buyers in different parts of the world, as the benefits are not just unidirectional; it has been quite helpful for writers, publishers and sellers to make their book products, researches and piece of art available for appreciation from all over the world. Economy of scales have played its part too as now the publishers will not be limited to gain financial benefits from a limited stock, it opens up a giant market just by publishing e-version of the book while publishing a paper book.
Wrapping up the discussion, it would be quite true to claim that e-books are proven beneficial for not only the readers, writers, sellers or intermediate parties; but are also a very useful tool of protecting our environment too. The argument for this statement is not a new one, we all know that from ancient times human have produced papers using plants and trees as a source and with increasing use of papers in modern day life there have been several campaigns every year to protect environment by reducing the tree cutting activities. E-books have allowed to keep sharing knowledge, ideas and researches without the cost of cutting trees or and hence played their part in saving environment.
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