An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.
The rise of multimedia digital downloads in recent years has been truly extraordinary. The impact has been so great in respect of digital music downloads. Digital music accounted for half of the all the revenue generated by the music industry in 2016 and amounted to a total of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars that year. Over the years, many music labels stopped releasing singles on a physical format. We do not foresee that major book publishing companies will abandon paperbacks. However, the expansion of digital downloads equally applies to books. The biggest booksellers have reported that they sell more digital books than paperbacks.
Digital books are well established. Project Gutenberg, an online library of books that can be downloaded free of charge, has been expanding its collection since 1971. Almost its entire library consists of books that are available in the public domain, although there are a few copyright texts which are also included.
Here’s our recommended free and open source Windows-based ebook tools.
| ebook Tools | |
| calibre | Powerful and easy to use e-book manager jammed pack with great features |
| Booktype | Designed to help you produce books with others, or by yourself |
| FBReader | Popular (20+ millions installs) multi-platform ebook reade |
| Sigil | Multi-platform EPUB ebook Editor |
| EpubCheck | Validate EPUB files (EPUB 2 and EPUB 3) |
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