Why eBook First?

In one sense, everyone's website is an eBook, and the Web is one huge library of interlocking eBooks.

I know, I have been reading a lot during my research. Basically, this eBook is was a way of presenting the collection of information electronically, with the added power of linking documents and collections of documents through hypertext links.

The liberating power of the Web is that documents can be viewed across a whole range of computer platforms, from mainframes to mobile phones.

The disadvantage of the Web is that to view the documents you have to be "online".

Benefits of eBook - One Size Does Not Fit All -

• Once downloaded (from the Web or a CD ROM), eBooks can be viewed whilst offline (although some of the external links I have embedded will only work when you are online).
• Unlike websites, it can be easily distributed to other users
• Unlike standalone documents, such as a Word or Excel file, this eBooks contains a variety of documents and files, all conveniently packaged in a single file.
• Unlike paper-based books, this eBooks can be easily updated. And believe me, with daily changes
• in the industry, this is one of the main reasons the eBook is coming out first. This eBook will even have a link to a website which contains the latest downloadable version of the book. Again, another reason the eBook is coming out first, as updates are happening weekly in the industry.
  
• The production cost of eBooks is minimal, a big benefit for you.
  
• Because I have been advise to have security, parts of the eBooks may be compiled so as to disable printing unless paid for. It may also be password protected which will prevent individual files from being copied (although no-one has found a way of preventing anything from being re-typed!)

Just keeping you updated, as I said I would let you know what was decided before the end of the year.

Dore E. Frances, M.A.