Ebooks have the following advantages:
1. They have extremely low production and distribution costs.
2. They require less physical space for storage.
3. They are portable – hundreds of ebooks can be carried on a single device or memory card.
4. Customers can download ebooks and begin to read them immediately.
5. People with reading disabilities can adjust text fonts and sizes.
6. Ebooks can be interactive. Ebooks can contain a combination of text, images, audio, video and animations.
7. Ebooks are searchable, The text can be easily searched.
8. Ebook content can be cross-referenced using hyperlinks.
9. Ebooks made with certain software can be secured to only allow the ebook to be read on one computer. These ebooks can even be “turned off” after a customer requests a refund.
10. Ebooks are environmentally friendly. They require a little electricity to read but they don’t consume the same paper, ink and other resources required to produce paper books.