The head of Google Books in Spain, Luis Collado, said that "the 'ebook' not intended to replace the paper book, but how to facilitate access to reading." Collado gave the lecture on 'The book and the Internet, a good marriage? " is part of the Summer Courses of the University of La Rioja.

This course aims to reveal what the 'ebook', the digital version of a book, an allusion both to the equipment used to read books like the program contents such as using a book on paper. In addition, we will address the influence that the Internet has resulted in society.

Only fifteen years since the introduction of universal Internet, but now is the day that we do not have access to it seems that we are disconnected from the world, "said Collado, insisting that it" has been introduced as amazing as of communication. "

Thanks to the Internet more than 1.5 million users who use the Internet daily in the world have access to "an unthinkable amount" of content. "The human mind is not ready to absorb that amount of information and content must learn to discriminate."

Fruit of the amount of network data emerge "perversions" such as microlectura, referring to the people no longer sit quietly to read and understand the contents, but the Internet is read from the raw scattered contents 'losing the notion of a work book from beginning to end. "

MORE THAN 10 MILLION COPIES

As for the 'ciberlibro' central theme of the conference, has reported that Google Books currently has more than 10 million books scanned in the network, following the agreements with libraries and publishers, users may receive inquiries from the work.

The operation is very simple, the user only has to type a word in your PC browser and register immediately on the screen in which book and page are.

Still, the reader may consult the book only, just as in a bookstore, where you ojeas books and not read the whole. " Therefore, it is a free service in the access, "depending on the copyrights of each specimen.

The 'ebook' causes' are many more readers and potential buyers of a book "as it more easily find content. "I do not have to go where the paper, but only through the Internet." It has also reiterated that the paper book "has no expiration, since the ciberlibro is just a chance that people accessing to read "that incorporates all the knowledge of the books on paper to the Internet.

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