eBooks are surely the future of books. These are books in a digital format and are ordered online and delivered electronically to your computer. In today's fast-paced world, eBooks are compact, convenient, portable and cost half the price than their printed counterparts. Simply put, an eBook is a computerized form of a printed book that can be read on a PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or on an eBook Reader.

• eBooks are infinitely more portable than paper books and fit in snugly into your computer, laptop, palmtop, PDAs, etc.

• They are easy to ship and one can carry several books in one small package.

• " Some of them are in a downloadable format and some can be read online only after a payment of a token fee.

• eBooks may be customized to suit specific interests and tastes

• There are even some rare books that are easily available in a digital format.

• Authors have the ability to self publish and distribute their own books inexpensively.

• eBooks are copyright-protected through software that prevents unauthorized duplication of content.

• The visually-impaired may switch to audio mode and have en eBook read to them instead.

• An eBook can be easily updated.

• No expense for overstocking or missed sales from out of stock books

• Rare books in faraway lands that were hitherto unavailable are now just a click away. Up to 500 ebooks can be stored in one CD. Phew!

• An e-book never gets “out of print”! It can be accessed immediately & simultaneously by many.

The web is a virtual treasure house of invaluable and exhaustive listing of books on all possible subjects available - science, medicine, politics, literature, technology, engineering and just about anything and everything! The prohibitive costs of printing, storage, distribution and marketing of a book makes publishing a very risky business. Understandably, publishers publish only what they believe will sell and not necessarily what they believe in.

eBooks however scale down the financial risk of publishing considerably.

A literary nirvana has been created through e-books! One that is sure to stay for a long, long time to come.