eBooks

**What are eBooks?**
====eBooks are essentailly electronic books. An eBook is a book displayed with text, images or a combination of both which is read through a computer or electronic device (e.g. iPad, Kindle, eReaders, iPod Touch etc.).==== ====Users can purchase eBooks easily through websites and book stores online. They are then downloaded to the electronic device to be read by the user. The Apple iBooks store was launched in 2009 which allows books to be downloaded to electronic Apple devices.====

====**Using the iPad compare the experience of storage and retrieval viewing a eBook and viewing a normal hardcover magazine. Think about how the user interacts with the information and the ease at which they can find and retrieve data.**==== ====By using an iPad, it is much easier to view an eBook. The magazine becomes more interactive through it becoming electronic. The reader is able to easily scan through pages with hyperlinks between the pages for easy access. In comparison, a normal magazine is more difficult to find specific pages as there is a directory for finding information in the contents, although it is more time consuming finding the pages. The electronic version is more easily accessed. The electronic magazine offers information in bright colours, with multimedia attached. The information can be changed so that it suits a specific person, by adjusting font sizes and rotating the screen.====