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The argument that e-books are superior to paper books

The main characteristics of e-books

Paperless transmission information

E-book is a kind of "paperless book", which has no paper medium of traditional books. The information of traditional books exists in the form of atoms, while the information of e-books exists in the form of numbers.

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The process of traditional books from production to consumption is "author-publisher-publisher-reader". E-books can greatly simplify this process and become a "direct selling" model of "author-reader" After the author's work is completed, it becomes an e-book through simple operation, and then the e-book can be presented to the reader in an instant with a click of the mouse. Internet is the highway of e-book communication.

mixed-media

E-books can not only display the words and pictures in paper books, but also keep the original paper books. At the same time, it can be accompanied by multimedia content such as audio and video, and its forms of expression are richer than traditional books. This is beyond words.

Easy retrieval

The query of traditional book content is very time-consuming and headache. E-books are stored in digital form, which is very convenient and fast to retrieve. This provides great convenience for academic research, saves people's precious labor and time, and accelerates the utilization, processing and reproduction of knowledge.

Easy to store

1G hard disk can store about 20,000 e-books. A laptop can be your library. This greatly facilitates the preservation and reading of books and saves our limited living space. This makes it nothing new for ordinary readers to own libraries. In addition to computer storage, e-books can also be stored through mobile storage devices. This forms a great advantage of e-books: they are easy to carry. When you are away from home, you can easily take a lot of books, even a library.

low cost

It should be said that the cost is extremely low. The "publication" and "distribution" of e-books have fallen to the lowest point in time and material consumption. Many books sold on the "Click Book City" website are one or two yuan, which is very cheap.