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50 Benefits of Ebooks
A Thinking Person's Guide
to the Digital Reading Revolution
Edition: September 2009

Ebook in formats PDF and ePub
All the same content as the 372-page paperback.
51,000 words.

50 Benefits of Ebooks is a lively introduction to the brave new worlds of ebooks and electronic publishing. The book makes no attempt to be comprehensive. Instead, the work focuses on 3 areas:

1) the new, useful and most interesting aspects of the ebook experience;
2) the free (and approaching low-cost) ebooks that might inspire a genuine publishing revolution; and
3) how reading good books (whether made of paper or of bytes) might transform our culture and our personal lives.

The Ebook Version is one-fifth the Price of the Paperback

This book is being published in paperback, and as an ebook, in the formats PDF and ePub.

The book's companion blog and website, (EpublishersWeekly.net) advises readers NOT to buy the pocket-sized 372-page paperback, which costs $ 20. The ebook version costs four dollars, saves trees, and contains all the same content as the paperback — except the paper!

28 Chapters :: 5 Sections :: 51,000 Words

The book's 28 chapters are organized into five sections:

A. Benefits of Ebooks and Paper Books
B. Reading Ebooks
C. Ebooks for Authors and Publishers
D. The Value of Reading
E. The Education of an Ebooklover

Ebook newcomers will find the basics here. Scholars and mothers, concerned about the dumbing effects of technology, will be gripped by the essay "The Monster Reads!". And ebook professionals can debate and debunk the author's wild predictions for the rosy and thorny future of ebooks, by devouring the essay: "Publishing Ebooks — Ten Tremendous Trends in 2009 ."

Author Michael Pastore writes:
"I love paper books, and I hope that they are never completely replaced by their electronic progeny. Nevertheless, every day, ebooks are growing in use, in sales, and in significance. After years of sputtering, the Digital Reading Revolution has at last arrived. 50 Benefits of Ebooks is your friendly and reliable guide."

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