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Why eBooks Are A Positive Choice For Forward Thinking Knowledge Seekers
Information at your fingertips. That was the promise of the internet and it is becoming more of a reality
as readers and publishers begin to embrace the idea of instantly downloadable e-books as a standard. Although most of our titles are available in print from all good bookshops this store focuses solely on selling eBooks.
We'll look at the benefits of e-books in a moment but first, here are a few reasons why you might have been
nervous in the past:
- Trust: The low barrier to entry - to create and start selling an eBook immediately - has attracted some less-than-honest individuals out to make a quick buck without providing true value. In many cases it's hard to believe some of their hyped up claims and to know if your book will arrive or be as good as they say once you've paid money. We're a bone-fide publisher with many successful titles in print. But for your peace of mind we also offer a 30 day guarantee - yes even on eBooks.
- Toilet Paper: Many people read books in all kinds of unusal places; on the loo, in the bath, on the bus etc. These are often not the most practical places to take your laptop or palmtop.
- Revision: Many people like to scribble notes in their books so they can review the key points more quickly in the future. But, in fact, eBooks make the process of note taking and revision even easier with all sorts of tools including highlighters and post-its.
Now, we've seen what may have stopped you in the past here are just a few reasons why e-books could be right for you now:
- Speed: Don't wait days - download your eBook instantly! If it's information you want and you want it now then getting instant access is a real benefit. Some niche books may only be produced in small numbers meaning long delays if your only choice is print.
- Niche Books: Publishers can work on smaller margins making niche or otherwise economically unviable books available to people who want them. This increases your ability to find good content that mainstream publishers wouldn't otherwise produce.
- Safe: You can back it up - to CD or another computer without worrying about losing or damaging it.
- Space: If you buy and read many books in a year you'll soon find your personal space shrinking as your book collection grows. eBooks don't take up physical space.
- Portable: If you really like to take your books with you you can use your palmtop or if you're low-tech you can print out portions of the book for reading away from the screen without worrying about damaging the original. If you have various books you need to refer to then eBooks can save a lot of space and weight - you can have a library on the move.
- Quicker Research/Revision: You can "search" the book using the search feature which saves hours scanning.
- For Tree Lovers: Paper is lovely but traditional books require a lot of trees and ink. eBooks save trees which can only be a good thing.
In summary, here's why more and more people are falling in love with eBooks...
- You can get good information on specific topics/interests that big publishers just won't be interested in.
- We love books - we also love open space. How much physical space does your current book collection take up? Just think of all those poor trees!
- All the really juicy, hard to get hold of stuff, takes ages if you buy via traditional routes and when, if you're like us, you're researching or getting into something we like to devour all the content we can get. So we love the fact they're instant.
- Many people work from home offices these days and if not they're probably travelling all over the place instead. So eBooks enable you to cart round a whole library on your hand-held.
- You can perform CTRL+F in eBooks when looking for keywords, phrases or concepts which can save hours (and sore eyes) when researching stuff.
- If you have Acrobat you can add little post-it notes to a file making your eBook a living, growing, valuable piece of research.
- If you prefer to scribble notes or complete the exercises on the page you can print the really useful stuff, like useful list, contacts or tips. You can also print just that page and stick it on a wall. And if there are parts to fill in you can print just those pages and complete them without damaging the book.
BookShaker.com only lists and sells eBooks. Links to the physical Paperback equivalents for all our titles are all clearly marked. But if you want it now and you want the flexibility of being able to search, backup and print only the portions of your book you want then why not give eBooks a go?
Learn more about how to buy and download your eBook here...
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