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What is an ebook?

An ebook is a book in electronic or digital format.
It is made to be read on any type of computer or on specific devices such as electronic ink readers and even on pocket computers or mobile phones.

Advantage

The ebooks are purchased online, without waiting or shipping costs and have immediate availability.

There is no cost of paper or ink so they have a lower selling price than the book printed and are environmentally friendly.

Rights Of Use

Ebooks have restricted use rights in order to protect copyright.
You can read your ebook as many times as you want and on the device you want, but you will not be able to print it unlimitedly
or transfer it to a device that is not authorized.
An identifier is used to manage these rights Adobe ID, which is a way of ensuring that an ebook belongs to a single person. This way we avoid illegal copying.

Obtaining an Adobe ID is very simple and you only have to specify a name, surname and email.

There are also ebooks free of use rights .

How to buy

1.-In order to manage your ebooks, install the free program Adobe Digital Editions .
2.- Certify your permissions on the electronic book acquired by means of an Do you want to know more or have doubts arisen?: Available formats for ebooks

Among the formats commonly used for electronic books are the following:

- PDF. Among its advantages we can mention its portability and its ISO standardization. It is the most widely used format due to its easy use in the huge installed park of PCs, laptops and netbooks. Among its disadvantages we can mention that it is not repayable, such as Mobipocket or the EPUB standard.

- Mobipocket (.prc, .mobi).

- Amazon Kindle (.azw) is the format created to support the e-book reader marketed by Amazon. It is based on Mobipocket, with a slight difference in the serial number scheme (uses an asterisk instead of a dollar sign) it has its own DRM format.

- eReader (.pdb) , by Palm Digital Media, with good support from smartphones and pdas, as there are versions of the reading software for iPhone, PalmOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile ...

- Microsoft Reader (.lit) , is one of the oldest formats, created in 2000 and can be read with Microsoft Reader, a free application from the Seattle company and was originally intended for its use in PDAs.

- EPUB. It is a format oriented to use in electronic ink devices, it is the most recently created (2007) and together with PDF it is the only one with international support, having been adopted by the IPDF.

- FictionBook.

Prerequisites to download an eBook

To download an eBook you need to have the free software Adobe Digital Editions installed on a desktop or laptop computer with at least 6Mb of free space on your hard drive. To certify your permissions on the purchased e-book it is necessary that you authorize Adobe Digital Editions with an account What are the advantages of authorizing my team / s with an Adobe ID account?

Using the Adobe ID as an identifier on your computer will allow you to retain ownership of the e-book if you lose or format your computer. Also, using the same Adobe ID, you can download the same eBook on different computers. Obtaining an Adobe ID is an easy and fast process that consists of clicking on the yellow CREATE A ADOBE ACCOUNT button and subsequently entering some data such as your email. To authorize your team you can insert your Adobe ID during installation or later from the Adobe Digital Editions option

Printing and copying of ebooks

The content of the eBook can be printed and / or copied if such permissions have been authorized by the publisher. You can check what are the rights or permissions that have been configured for each book: print and / or copy in the particular file of each eBook.
Using the Adobe ID as an identifier on your computer will allow you to retain ownership of the book electronic if you lose or format the device. Also, using the same Adobe ID, you can download the same eBook on different computers.

Using book reading devices

Pages appear on the screen and with Adobe Digital Editions you can flip them one by one, or jump from one to another as you like. The eBook allows you to, for example, search for words or order your books in different ways. Also, if the editor has allowed it, the text can be printed and / or copied to the clipboard. The tools and utilities of Adobe Digital Editions are very easy to use.
Adobe Digital Editions also works as a real library on your computer by allowing you to organize your eBooks in different ways.