ISSN 2756-3383
African Journal of Library and Information Science ISSN 5721-610X Vol. 3 (10), pp. 001-006, October, 2017. © International Scholars Journals
Review
Open e-books: The changing paradigm
K. Nikam1* and A. S. Rai2
1Department of library and Information science, University of Mysore, Mysore –6, Karnataka, India.
2New Horizon College of Engineering, Outer Ring Road, Kadubisanahalli, Panathur Post, Bangalore – 560 087, India.
Accepted 31 March, 2017
Abstract
When the medieval scribes invented incunabula, less they imagined that a day would come when all that art of printing a book using movable types will soon be invisible and the impact of e-book on scholarship will prevail. The shift in the emergence of e-books to open e- books is magical. Thanks to the efforts of some of the tech leaders like Adobe and Microsoft in revolutionizing the e-book movement. The authors in this paper have discussed the changing faces of an e-book to open e-book and its impact on scholarship, and also present the future of e-books for the new generation readers and the enabling technologies for rapid usage of these changing e-book paradigms in the emerging publishing industry along with the future of these devises.
Key words: E-books, e-brary, project Guttenberg, open e- book, e-book software, e-book reader hardware, rocket e-book, e-book publishing, contract law, copyright law.