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E-books procurement

Dear professionals.

I want some information reagarding E-books procurement process for Personal computers, E-books formats, how many computers we can use that book etc.

Please give suggestion for immediate e-book purchase for personal computers and difference between amazon kindle and other e-books purchase.

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Permalink Reply by Siddu M Huded on January 26, 2018 at 1:37

Dear Kumarswamy,

1) You can directly procure e-books from the publishers, if books have been published by the respective publishers. Otherwise you can go through vendors.

2) There are several e-books formats are available ex: Amazon's-AZW, Sony's-BbeB, Microsoft's-LIT, MOBI, PDF etc.

3) Amazon's-Kindle, Infibeam's-Pi are commercial e-book readers apart from these some of the open source and free books readers are also available e: Calibre is a open source and Icecream e-book reader is a free e-book reader.

4) There are certain purchase models are available for e-book procurement ex: User Concurrence, Circulation, Limited, Perpetual, Pay-Per-Use, Subscription etc., Depends upon books and size of users you may go for procurement.

Thanks