Current and Future Prospect of Electronic Books
With the rapid development of information technology,electronic book (e-book) appears as an outcome of the high-tech era. Various devices are built specifically for e-books,such as Amazons Kindle and Sonys PPS-500,leading to a boost of popularity in the world With the unceasing development and updates of modern technologies,including the e-paper,multi-touch,WiFi,and audio support,the e-book has led a new tendency to education and publication industry that exceeds traditional books to some extent. This article summarizes the pros and cons of e-books in comparison with traditional printed books,and analysis its room for further improvement. E-book,as a representative product of the age,cannot separate from its cultural and historical background;instead,they have formed a reciprocal relationship,for mutual benefit and dependence.
e-book electronic book development futurn prospect information technology
Chen Yuwei Yu Ping
School of Computer Science,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),Champaign 61820,IL,Unit Tourism Institute of Beijing Union University,Beijing 100101,China
国际会议
南宁
英文
28-31
2010-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）