What is an ebook?
The term eBook applies to published materials, such as reference books, scholarly monographs and consumer books that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. netLibrary eBooks offer patrons many benefits not available with traditional books. eBooks are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week-from any location in the world. Robust search technology facilitates finding both books and specific information within books. Additional features, such as a dictionary, bookmarking, and being able to open multiple books at one time, further increase their usefulness.
An eBook is a completely electronic version of a book. Most people think you need to purchase an expensive piece of hardware to read eBooks. However, eBooks can be read on home computers, laptop computers and even handheld PDAs as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, in addition to specialized eBook readers.
