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| What is e book and paper book? |
In this tutorial you can get all info about E-book and paper books and E-book publishing...
Introduced to E-book
The latest form of the book is e-book. The Urdu translation of which is 'Electronic Kitab' or 'E-Kitab'. E is a book which is not written with a pen but composed with a board. (even if the author wrote the initial draft with a pen) and is not printed on paper but displayed on the screen. This screen can be of a computer or a smart phone.
The first concept of e-book in history was introduced by Michael Hart in 1971 under 'Project Kittenberg'. The aim of this project was to bring 'public domain' i.e. rights-free books to free people. Since this was not possible in paper form due to the cost of paper and paper, the concept of e-books was brought forward. But in fact, e-books gained popularity and acceptance when smartphones and tablets came into existence. Taking advantage of this technology, many western publishers introduced a regular e-publishing system and published e-books in droves. The secret of immense popularity of e-books lies in their advantages. Which makes them stronger than paper books.
Important advantages of e-books:
Since the publishing of e-books does not involve the cost of paper and press machinery, they are not only cheaper than paper books but also available free of charge. Most of the popular domain books in languages around the world are now available in the form of e-books for free. Easy, instant and ubiquitous availability is a huge advantage. If your passion for reading has awakened at three o'clock in the night even in a remote area, then you can get the e-book at that time sitting at the same place.
You can carry countless books in your pocket, the advantage of which is that any book can be read anywhere at any time. E-books have made the book compatible with technology. In today's age when smartphone has become such a necessity that you can't bear to be away from it even for ten minutes, having books on your phone can be a great attraction for studying. E-books protect language and literary capital. A hundred thousand copies of the book should also be burnt. (As has been the case in the past, the millions of copies of e-books on people's computers and phones around the world are nearly impossible to eradicate.
Urdu books and a fallacy.
As in all matters of technology, the East and especially the people of Urdu are far behind the rest of the world when it comes to e-books. The popularity of Internet in the last few years has increased the trend of reading Urdu books "online", but our people are still not familiar with e-books.
Scanning books and uploading them in "PDF" format is called e-book and this process is considered as "e-publishing". Whereas the real e-book is a completely different thing.
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E-books are not PDFs
E-books are not technically PDFs, but some special formats are used worldwide, the most popular of which is "e-web" (EPUB). E-pub is a special software for reading e-books, which is installed in the form of a program on a computer and an app on a smartphone. This software and e-app. Collaboration provides some benefits to the reader, which may not be available in scanned books, such as:
- Font size, style, color, margin, line, height, etc. can be set as per your choice.
- By increasing or decreasing the size of the font, the page does not go beyond the limits of the screen, but the e-book adjusts itself in such a way that you do not have any difficulty in reading.
- On the page you will leave the study, in the next session the book will start from there.
- If you are used to studying before going to bed at night. So by using 'night mode' or night style, you can study in a dark room without showing your eyes.
System of E-Publishing.
E-books is an affiliate publishing system through which authors and publishers can sell their books worldwide at low cost. The most important component of any e-publishing system is a Managements Digital Rights (DRM) system, which prevents the piracy of e-books. It makes it easy, but not easy to do in the presence of DRM system. Moreover, it cannot be ignored that paper books are also photocopied and scanned and published without permission. is reducing No special work has been done regarding e-books in Urdu language, however, recently a Pakistani company named Ideal ideas introduced a comprehensive system of Urdu books and e-publishing under the name of Kitab. Under which E-books are being published for the first time in the world of Urdu according to international standards. Android App is available to read these E-books. Which can be downloaded by writing KITAAB Google Play Store.
Book app.
E-books can be downloaded and read from the online library in the book app. A good number of books are available at present and it is increasing day by day. All the books published on the book are completely free of piracy and the permission of the respective authors and publishers is included. On the other hand, independent books are also available in large numbers and are being worked on very rapidly. The founders of the book say that they want to publish all Urdu Pluck Domain Books on the App so that the precious literary capital of Urdu is not only protected by adapting it to technology, but it can also be compared to other languages in the digital world.
Lakhra should be done. The complete information of the book can be obtained from this website: www.kitaabapp.com The book is not only a beautiful gift for Urdu and the people of Urdu but also a great effort for the development and survival of this language.