Few innovations make it to the list of favorites among consumers. Over the last decade, you could count on one hand the technologies that revolutionized or altered the way we do things both in the office, at home and on the road.
The internet is one major technological landmark you can call a maelstrom that simply opened up possibilities to doing things we never thought possible before. It transformed the world into one global community that dissolved virtual and real geo-political boundaries between nations and between lifestyles.
One very recent revolution that has swept the world off its traditional book reading habits is the eBook phenomenon. It's a natural offshoot of word processing that allowed you to store your writings, format them and retrieve them. It made printing a redundancy.
File format like the Acrobat ODF can store them in non-editable files so that an eBook can be commerced across a wider readership. This created the seeds for phenomenal spread of the eBook we are seeing today.
But it took a new hardware platform that allowed it to be handled like any book. Two technologies made it popular, here they are
The Viewer
Desktop computers and laptops already allow the viewing of eBooks in their various formats. eBooks have been with us for nearly a decade now but they occupied a specialty niche of readers. You have digitized technical manuals for factories, Year-End or Annual reports as well as product brochures that often get digitized into CDs for select corporate employees and markets.
Mobile gadgets like pocket PCs and PDAs offered the best alternative as eBook viewers and to some extent they made sense. But they were too expensive and lack the memory to store more than 3-5 ebook titles. It was not until specialized eBook viewers came along that the promised convenience of eBooks became reality.
It took the Amazon Kindle, the Nook from Barnes & Noble and now the Apple iPad to make eBooks more popular than ever. With longer battery life spans and the use of electronic paper that reflected light instead of getting the eye-straining backlighting common in LCD screens, the single purpose eBook readers revived reading as a cool past time.
The Internet
Just like the online application and music stores from Apple, the eBook owes much of its popularity to the online bookstore. And not just any online bookstore that makes money out of selling eBooks. It's the free downloads of titles in the public domain that finally sealed the inevitable spread of the eBook as a viable alternative to the traditional books we love.
Today's ebook reader is no longer just a viewer and a storage bin for hundreds of titles. With online access over 3G or WiFi, your viewer gives you access to literally thousands of titles of online publishers and digital libraries where any title or topic is literally right in your fingertips.
For book worms who can easily devour two to three 250 page books a day, there's no end to the titles they want to read. In most cases, an eBook lover will need more than a lifetime to read all the free eBooks available online.
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