Design and Implementation of e-Book Authoring and Customization

Electronic book (e-Book) is an electronic version of traditional print book that can be
read by using a personal computer or an e-Book reader. Users can purchase an e-Book
on diskette or CD, but the most popular method of getting an e-Book is to purchase or
download the e-Book from a Web site to be read from the user's computer or reading
device. The e-Book future has not been clearly seen yet, as some says that nothing can
beat the original printed books but some others would say that e-Book is the future of
reading. This report is a final year project involving a research and implementation of
an improved version of e-Book. The research is conducted to get a better understanding
on the e-Book itself, what it is and what are the advantages and disadvantages of e-
Books. On the implementation side, an improved version of e-Book is developed, with
the focus on the design, and functionalities and the special facilities. The
implementation will also improve the way e-Book is presented. The newly improved e-
Book is expected to enhance the reading of e-Book. Scope of study will cover on the e-
Book, the comparison between e-Books in the internet, the programming language that
is used for the development of the project; which is HTML, PHP and JavaScript, and
also on the human and computer interaction to ensure the interactivity between user and
the computer. This project adopted the Rapid Application Development methodology to
converge early towards an acceptable and a feasible design of the project. The results of
this project will cover the survey analysis on e-Books, and the improved version of e-
Book.
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