E-Book Library Website Assignment 2022

Running head: E-BOOK LIBRARY WEBSITE
E-Book Library Website Planning, Analysis and
Development
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Background......................................................................................................3
1.1 Background Research/ Current State of the Art....................................................................3
1.2 Brief Analysis of E-Book Library.........................................................................................3
1.3 Ethical Aspects, Data Protection and Safety of the Website.................................................5
2. Aims and Objectives:...................................................................................................................6
2. Literature Review........................................................................................................................6
Introduction..................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................19
4. Contribution Chapters................................................................................................................19
4.1 Method.................................................................................................................................19
4.2 Results..................................................................................................................................23
4.3 Discussion............................................................................................................................33
4.4 Process Review....................................................................................................................37
5. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................42
References......................................................................................................................................47

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1. Introduction and Background
1.1 Background Research/ Current State of the Art
Electronic book or eBook is a book publication that is being made available in the
digitalized format, comprising of texts and images in a readable format on flat panel display of
computers and any other electronic device (Salmon 2014). This type of eBook exists without any
printed equivalent and could be read only on the dedicated e-reader device. However, these E-
Book could also be read on a computer device, which characterizes the controllable viewing
screen like desktop computers, smart phones, tablets and laptops. There was a trend of eBook
sales that is moving to the Internet connection, by which the respective readers buy all types of
traditional paper books as well as E-Book on website with the help of e-commerce system.
Readers can increasingly browse through several images of book covers with print books.
The paper books are then delivered to a reader through mails and other deliver services. The
users could easily browse through the titles online and as soon as they select or order the titles,
this eBook could be sent to them either online or the respective user could download the book
(Hess 2014). Several E-Book were being published online in the year of 2012 than that were
distributed in hardcover. The major reasons for the individuals, buying E-Book online, mainly
include low costs, larger selection of title and incremented comfort. E-Book have provided with
numerous important and significant advantages to its users and hence it becomes quite effective
and efficient for resolving complexities such as time management and incurring of extra costs.
1.2 Brief Analysis of E-Book Library
E-Book Library is an online book website that provides a relatively simple, yet
modernized technology for allowing its users to get access of several types of books. The entry

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to this website is being completed with the help of few entry barriers such as providing login
information. Each and every authenticated user has their own unique login ID and password and
after entering this information, he or she is able to login to the website and get access of the
books (Strouse and Ganea 2017). One of the most significant benefits of this type of library is
that unlike other online book websites, E-Book Library does not incur any cost and is completely
free for the registered users. As the entire E-Book industry is facing major uncertain pricing
standards within the respective market, the free services of E-Book Library are expected to
become extremely popular and significant for all types of users. This particular website has
involved two important inputs, which are screen technology and system technology.
The developed technology is required for the display on electronic screen and so that
every e-reader is able to access his or her book (Ihmeideh 2014). Moreover, E-Book Library will
be enabling advancement to a high level, with the core purpose that it would be gaining higher
popularity in future as well. The architecture or structure of the website is both advanced and
secured. As soon as the registered user logs in with authorized username and password, he or she
gets into the “Home” page. The user would get two broad criteria to sort his or her books, which
are “Search by Book Name” and “Search by Author”. It would reduce the complexity of users’
search to a better level, since even if the user has no idea about the author’s name or books’
name, he or she would be able to search the book just by click and without any complexity.
Moreover, the registered users would also get another option of contacting with the website
managers, if they are facing any issue regarding searching or security of the information
(Colombo, Landoni and Rubegni 2014). The users, even get an idea about the origin of the
website from the “About” section.

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There are five categories of e book available in the website of E-Book Library, which are
fiction, non fiction, thriller, horror and poems. Each and every registered user will be getting
options to select the books according to their choices. Moreover, the website even provides scope
for searching books according to their popularity, which refers to the fact, there exists a separate
section for highest rated books as well as highest rated authors (Velagić 2014). It reduces the
complexities of book searching for e-readers majorly and they are able to sort down their books
easily and promptly. The website provides a user friendly interface and thus all users can access
it, even without having strong technical knowledge.
1.3 Ethical Aspects, Data Protection and Safety of the Website
High security management system is being installed in the website of E-Book
Library. It helps in safeguarding every available e-book that is not yet accessed by any user. In
spite of the fact that this safeguarding system in installed in the website, they have still not
involved any cost or expense from the user (Shamir and Korat 2015). Another significant ethical
aspect of this website is that the confidential information of its users are highly safe and secured
and under no circumstance, this information is being hacked. Furthermore, the electronic pages
on the screen are extremely suitable for eyes of users and could even be adjusted to any preferred
font size. For ensuring safety and security in the website, software is being upgraded periodically
and every login page is being encrypted properly.
The developers of E-Book Library has even kept options for data backups, in case there is
any type of data related issue. They have also enforced a stronger password policy and have
hired a security expert for their website. This particular security expert is solely responsible for
regularly scanning the website for vulnerabilities with the help of a secured host (Núñez-Valdez
et al. 2015). The encryption technique, used in this website is SSL encryption and it enables

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better security and lack of interception. This paper will be providing a detailed analysis on the
online book website of E-Book Library with proper design, artefact, implementation and
evaluation.
2. Aims and Objectives:
Revenue: The organization wants to earn more than $10,000 in the monthly quarter
revenue.
Customer Service: Enhance understanding of product so that consumer issues can be
resolved quickly. Customer satisfaction should be more than 70% for this website. Each
customer can add products to wish list and easily access this list.
Coding: Increasing the productivity of the development so that 3 sprints can be released
weekly.
Testing: Implementing and planning testing of the website so that all the debugs and
production failures can be identified before deployment.
Communication: Getting feedback from the participants so that user interaction of the
proposed website can be enhanced.
Customer Experience: Increasing customer satisfaction by providing efficient
navigation, effective interaction, proper response from the system and more.
2. Literature Review
Introduction
As discussed by Guides (2018), the incorporation of the e-book facility has benefited
both the researchers as well as the students. The paper successfully acknowledged the usefulness

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of the e-books as they are no data collection issues associated with it. The paper suggested that
literacy rate can be improved to a significant extent due to the increasing usage of the e-books.
The level off reading and analyzing capability of the readers can be significantly improved due
to the deployment of e-books as per the discussions of this data source (Hing et al. 2015). The
paper was very much helpful to understand that the skill of the readers of eBooks are very much
as compared with the online research purposes.
EBooks vs. Libraries
According to Guides (2017), libraries offers wide range of data sources to both the
researchers as well as the students. The paper highlighted that advantages of deploying the e-
book system in a detailed manner. The paper suggested that price of the physical books can be
huge source of concern for the readers which can be successfully addressed using the e-book
system. The paper also suggested that each versions of an article can be accessed in a faster
manner using the eBooks system. The paper also focused on the disabilities of the physical data
source offered by the libraries. The subscription difficulties of the online articles was highlighted
by the paper in terms of the portability issues of the services provided by the online libraries. The
paper highlighted that availability of article can be managed in an organized manner from the
admin panel of the eBooks system which is not possible for the online libraries. Acceptability of
the e-book system is more as compared with the online articles as per the detailed discussions of
this paper.
However as deliberated by Gibbs and Gretzel (2015), there are few limitations associated
with E-books in terms of the acceptability of the global payment gateways. The paper was very
much significant to understand the facilities offered by E-Book system in terms of the onetime
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the EBook system has to be managed from the admin panel and they can set the terms and
conditions of the system according to the business terms and market volatility.
The portability of the online articles is much better than the physical books which are
stated in a detailed manner in this paper. This paper is very much significant to understand that
the accessibility of the E-books are much better than the physical books which are available in
the local libraries (Hing et al. 2015). The instant access is one of the main reasons behind the
enhanced use of the online E-book system as compared with the physical books. The paper
suggested that most of the physical books are very much heavy and it is very much difficult to
carry these heavy books from one place to another due to its weight, the paper also suggested
that the negligible weight in terms of eBooks are very much useful for the readers as it can be
easily transferred from one place to another. Thus, it can be said that the portability of the online
E-Book platform.
EBook Format
As per the discussions of Gerdes (2017), it can be reflected that there are diverse
categories of publishing forums which are increasingly used by the readers. The paper
successfully acknowledged that fact that the organized structure and format and procedure of an
E-books system can be very much essential to remove the limitations of the online libraries
(Ziemba et al. 2016). The paper also stated that the format of each E-Book platform are very
much different from each other. This data sources was very much significant to understand the
diverse formats which are maintained by the reputed publishing forum like Amazon where
extensions like AZW and AZW3 are deployed. Formats like MOBI was also mentioned in this
data source, this data source also highlighted the significance of Amazon Kindle which is one of
the most used online e-book service all over the world (Hughes 2018). The paper also explained

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the reasons behind the excessive use of the Apple IBook author application as the format of this
application is very much user friendly for the consumers. The paper stated that each of these
online applications uses the pdf format to provide their services to the clients (Hunt 2019). There
are compatibility issues and scalability issues associated with most of the online data libraries.
Settings of the users of the E-book system can be set by the admin from the backend of the
system. Thus, the paper was very much helpful to understand that the operational format of the
E-book systems can be very much beneficial for the readers.
Online E-Book website
As discussed by Game (2018), online E-book website can be very much significant
platform for the readers of the online book. The paper is very much significant to understand that
there are no such technological competencies associated with the E-book systems at the same
time the paper also highlighted that there are many advantages associated with the deployment of
E-Book systems. There are very negligible portability issues associated with the E-book systems
which are increasingly being used in the educational institutions (Juarez et al. 2016). The paper
highlighted that foreign languages can be learnt in an organized manner using the E-book
systems. The other advantage of using E-book systems is the availability of the peer previewed
journals in a secured manner as discussed in this paper. There are very less discretions associated
with the increasing use of the E-book system as per the discussions of this paper. The discussions
indicated that the use of the E-book systems can be very much beneficial as compared with the
other online book services. The paper is very much significant in order to improve the
connectivity among each of the readers associated with a research (Kannan 2016). The pricing
strategies of the E-book systems has to be of the highest order in order to address the financial

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issues faced by the consumers. Improvement of intelligent and enhanced brain storming can be
the most significant contribution of the E-book systems as described in this data source.
The paper was very much useful to understand that there are no real entry fees associated
with the physical online E-book platforms. The E-book systems does not have any sort of
licensing issues which is a source of concern for the students and the researchers who uses these
E-book systems. The paper was very much significant to understand why the avid readers
usually choses E-book systems over the practical books.
Usefulness for the students
As discussed by Fleming and Parker (2015), education faculty students can be
significant affected after the incorporation of the E-book systems. Reactions of any new concept
can be obtained an organized manner using the E-book systems as discussed in this paper. The
paper was very much helpful to understand that this E-book system can be easily incorporated in
an education Information System. The usefulness of the electronic books which are available in
the E-book systems can be understood from the discussions made in this data source. The paper
was very much significant to understand that the design and the usability of the E-book systems
is very much beneficial for the students as they require huge amount of data during the
graduation or post-graduation days (Khur-Yearn 2019). The paper stated that logical structure of
the data represented in the paper can be very much significant for the students as they can
understand the contents of those paper from the abstract or executive summary. The paper
suggested that diverse categories of hypothesis associated with each of the data sources which
are presented in the E-book systems. The readability of the texts of the E-book systems are much
enhanced as compared with the other online data sources, this specification can be very much
significant for the students who are aspiring to use these kind of E-book systems (Yan et al.

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2019). Random sampling method are usual very much beneficial for the consumers as well as
stated by this paper. The paper also stated that the reliability of the data of E-book systems is
much more than the electronic books.
Students of our society usually uses advanced smart devices which can be very
much useful to store the E-book in an organized manners as compared with the physical books
which are available in the school libraries (Kidd 2019). There are no deductions and additional
changes associated with the data coming from the E-book systems. Managing the book shelves
of the E-books is much easier as compared with physical books which are used by the lecturers
in schools and colleges. The paper have highlighted that rereading of the sections can be easily
highlighted in the E-book systems as compared with the physical books which places the online
E-books in a much more competitive position as compared with the physical books
Impact on the younger generation
As discussed by Ettinger, Feldman and Cote (2017), younger section of the
society can be hugely benefitted from the use of the E-book systems. The paper focused on the
impact of these online data facility on the literacy rate of the country also. The paper highlighted
that readers of 13-27 usually access these E-book systems. The comparative analysis and the
critical evaluation of topic are the two primo reasons for the election of articles from E-book
systems as stated by the paper. This data source was very much significant to understand that
younger generations of the society enjoys reading online articles as compared with the physical
books (Wu Zhao and Zhou 2019). Book markers and the new business opening are easily
created using E-book systems as described in this paper. The incorporation of the E-book
systems can have a direct impact on the literacy rate of the country as some of the data can be

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accessed with an active internet connection. The other significant contribution of this paper is
that it helps in understanding the effectiveness of the E-magazines on the electronic devices.
Enjoyment
According to Eiseley (2016), diverse categories of readers are there to access E-book
systems and each of the readers can be benefitted after the E-book systems. The paper was very
much significant to understand that children may find it very much easier to access the online
data sources as compared with the physical books. Prices of the journals can be set in an
organized manner so that the data are easily accessible for the children of our society. The paper
successfully identified that there are numerous ethical considerations which are sometimes
violated by the younger consumers (Lipton 2018). There are no real expense issues associated
with the use of the E-books as compared with the physical book. The paper was very much
helpful to understand the significance of the E-books which are easily used by the students for
educational purposes. The paper provided in depth discussion about the simplicity of the e-
commerce platforms which are used by this online E-book providers.
Reading experience and modalities
As illustrated by Dobson, (2017), experience of the readers are very much
significant for the incorporation of the E-book systems. The deployment of digital devices can be
very much significant regarding the excessive use of the E-book systems as per the discussions
made in this paper. This paper is very much significant to understand that illustrations of the E-
book systems are much more effective than the elaborate description of the physical book for the
younger sections of the society. This paper is very much significant to understand to understand
that motivation and engagement of the readers can be improved in an organized manner using

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the E-book system (Lohman, Byers-Connon and Padilla 2017). Each of the digital study
materials can be accessed without any difficulty using the E-book systems. The E-book systems
can be very much important for the students studying in distant courses. The enhanced reliability
and validity of the data of E-book system can be useful to enhance the experience of the readers.
Preference can be set by the users as they identifies the exact data they need from the E-book
system. The significance of training sessions in order to manage the complications of E-book
systems like dealing with the queries coming from the consumers was also focused in this paper
(Warren 2015). The flexibility and the interactivity of the E-book systems which are commonly
deployed for the students are very much useful to improve the user experience of E-book
systems.
Amazon
As discussed by Cooper (2019), Amazon prime reading is one of the most used E-book
system. The paper is very much significant to understand the facilities provided by Amazon
Prime Reading in terms of setting the low prices of the data sources, categorization of the
different types of E-books and the membership schemes for the regular consumers of this global
commercial establishment (Vanhala 2016). The paper stated that the market reputation of
Amazon plays a significant role for the amazon Prime reading services. There are flexible
strategies adopted for each of the users of the Amazon Prime Readers which are set by the
branch and regional heads. The paper is very much significant to understand the usefulness of the
social media platforms which can be incorporated in the E-book system. This data source can be
very much significant to understand the significance of the interactive E-book design. The
catalogue and info graphs are classified in a separate category in the Amazon Prime Reading.
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Amazon Prime Reading which are helpful for the consumers to select their desired or preferred
choices as per the discussions made in this paper. This paper is very much significant to
understand why diverse categories of deals are associated with Amazon Prime Reading
(Amazon.in. 2019). The significance of the Kindle device which was introduced in the year 2009
was acknowledged in this paper in a detailed manner. The usability of the Amazon account can
also be understood from the discussions made in this data source. Huge number of digital
platforms are used to get access to the Amazon Prime Reader. There are diverse versions of
Kindle which are very much useful for the readers over the years. The efficiency of the Linux
Kernel in Kindle can also be identified from this paper (Tovstiadi, Wiersma and Tingle 2017).
Based on the specifications of each versions of Amazon Prime Reading it can be said that there
are separate slots for memory card in each versions of Kindle which are very much useful for the
consumers of this e-book system. More than 6 million Amazon E-books were sold in the
American region which is one of the main reason to believe that the popularity of the E-book
system are enhancing every now and then.
Google Book
As quantified by Colbjørnsen (2015), intellectual excitement can be one of the most
prominent contribution of the Google books. The paper stated that both books and magazines are
easily accessible for the consumers of the Google Books. The paper highlighted that each of the
archives can be set in a proper way using this online book facility. The role of the library
partners for few journals can be understood from the discussion of this book. The lack of editing
and identification of errors are other contribution of the Google books as mentioned in this data
source. This data source is very much significant to understand the filtering or the scanning
procedure of Google Books (Books.google.com. 2019). The paper is very much significant to

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understand the copyright issues of Google Books. The paper provides in depth discussion about
the different view option for each of the consumers of this E-book system. Full view and snippet
view are the two available options which are there for there for the consumers of this E-book
system. ISBN, copyright details and the other essential details like the subject of the paper can be
sorted in the first place using Google Book (Topol and Teirstein 2015). The paper also
highlighted the significance of the OCLC record numbers, and LCCN from where data can be
retrieved back. The paper also suggested that there are very negligible content issues associated
with the data of the Google books. The reliability of the data collected from Google book is very
much on the higher side as there are numerous technologies which are incorporated by Google
like Optical Character Recognition which are increasingly used to enhance the illustrations of the
Google books. This data source was very much significant to understand about the rampant
issues of the Google Books in terms of the metadata (Tiziani 2015). There are diverse categories
of metadata issues associated with Google books in terms of the subject classification and
spelling mistake of the authors of this website.
Book depository
As specified by Buettner (2017), book depository which is an online book selling agency
provide service to more than 160 countries all over the world. This paper highlighted the growth
of this UK based online book selling website. The detailed description of the revenue which is
around £120 million and total number of employees which is 150 employees can be understood
from this paper. This book selling company is not only popular in Europe but also in other parts
of the world like Australia and South America (Depository 2019). The paper is very much
significant to understand the available discount for each of the books available in this platform.
The enhanced searching technique of book depository can be understood from the detailed

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discussions of this paper. Wish list is one of the prime specification of the website maintained in
this business, the same time the significance of the basket feature of this business can be
obtained from this paper as well (Thurman 2017). The paper was very much significant to
understand the highlights of a current month. The diverse categories of classifications in terms of
the literary prizes and new releases of the book depository.
Kinokuniya
As discussed by Browne (2016), there are diverse categories of book store chain which
runs all over the world like Kinokunia which are very much helpful to research on any selected
subject. These book store chains are very much useful as they offers wide range of products and
service in terms of the art supplies and cards. Each of these cards can be very much useful to
manage the expectation of the consumers of this industry. The paper highlighted about the
different outlets of this business which helps to understand the exact expectation and location of
the consumers (Thomson 2016). The paper suggested that data from diverse sources are provided
to the consumers by the management team of this commercial organization in terms of the
magazines, CD-ROMs and audio visual software. This paper was very much significant to
understand the membership plans of this organizations which is very much useful for the readers
as it helps them to select the exact membership plan as per their expectations. The paper
highlights privilege cards which are significant in each of the online E-book businesses (Ltd
2019). Account information can also be sorted using the E-book system as discussed in this
paper. There are diverse categories of discount rates which are there for the users of this online
E-book system which was discussed in this paper.
Asian Digital library

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As stated by Asmawi (2018), Asian Digital Library is one of the most popular data
searching engine which are extensively used to gather reliable information about any topic. The
paper was very much significant to understand unrestricted access to high quality work provided
from the highest membership plan of this library. The paper suggested that this online data
searching tool can be very much very much significant to get the reliable peer reviewed articles
in cheaper rates. Millions of full text articles are easily available in this database of this
commercial organization. This paper suggested that future oriented digital solutions can be easily
obtained using AGL. The paper suggested that the challenges which are regularly faced in our
society can be addressed using the ADL (Mohideen 2017). The reliability of the data stored in
the servers of ADL is much better than other data search engines which are used all over the
world as discussed on the paper. The paper is very much significant to understand the usefulness
of the E-books which can be read in darkness (Theadl.com. 2019). The power outages have no
effect on the E-books as discussed in this paper. This paper is very much significant to
understand that the rate of the E-books are very low as compared with the rate of the physical E-
books. Steep discounts are available for the registered users of ADL.
Gutenberg Project
According to Al Zidjaly (2016), there are numerous E-book application which are
available all over the world and texts can be downloaded from those systems without any
difficulty. The paper highlighted the advantages of using these online E-book systems from
different perspectives in terms of the high accessibility of the peer reviewed articles. The paper
stated that both the online as well as the offline feature of the E-book systems are very much
useful for the readers. The diligent proofread reading of the data is responsible for the highest
quality of data which are available in online libraries like Project Gutenberg which is an US

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based business. There are no real compatibility issues associated with this online E-book system
which is one of the prime reason behind its acceptability (Mune and Agee 2015). The paper
highlighted that cloud computing services are required by this commercial organization in order
to safeguard their data from diverse categories of data security threats like data encapsulation and
data alteration which can occur due to cyber security threats like ransomware. There are millions
of eBooks which are available in Project Gutenberg and there are no real registration fees
associated with this business, this paper has successfully helped in understanding how data
coming from this organization. The paper was very much significant to understand the
significance of the online version and the offline version of the catalogues. The paper was very
much significant to understand that the audio books which are provided by Gutenberg Project are
very much helpful especially for the students who are pursuing their college degree (Newby
2015). There are very less licensing issues as well as the trademark issues associated with this
online project. The detailed discussion of this paper is very much helpful to understand that only
three language are provided in this E-book system such as French, Dutch and Portuguese.
Booktopia
As quantified by Abujudeh and Bruno (2017), it can be said that Booktopia is one of the
fastest online book store platform in Australia. The paper is very much helpful to understand the
usefulness of this online book store for the Australians researchers and the Australian student.
This online book store is one of the largest digital library which provides thousands of books and
peer reviewed journals and these books can be exclusively used in the research purposes. The
paper helps in providing advanced specifications and facilities in terms of the customization of
the font size and font style which is not possible in the physical books (Ruleman 2018). The
availability of the Indie titles is one of the biggest contribution of this online book store. The role

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of the self-published authors is very much significant in this online book store as discussed in
this paper. Resource management is one of the contribution of this online book store as it
successfully helps in providing best quality service to the readers. The accessibility of the online
E-books can also be identified from the discussions made in this paper (Booktopia.com.au.
2019). The paper is very much significant to understand that there are no printing costs
associated with the online journals which are exclusively found in this online data source. There
are diverse categories of preservation knowledge associated with the deployment of the E-books
(Proffite et al. 2018). The paper was very much significant in order to identify the preservation
costs associated with the physical books which is not a concern for the E-books. The
discoverability of the data is much more in the E-books of this business as compared with the
physical books.
Conclusion:
From the literature review it can be concluded that the PHP and MySQL are the most
efficient way of developing a dynamic website. The MySQL database is very easy to use and
learn. On the other hand, PHP also provides a great approaches for learning and developing
website easily. The combination of PHP and MySQL allows the developer to implement
exclusively dynamic contents easily. However, there are some issues in system security for PHP.
Over the time, the PHP community has developed various security features that can prevent
present day cyber-attacks. Various website also include data loading without page refresh. The
VueJS can be extremely effective for implementing this feature. The admin section or product
page where user can give review, can have this JavaScript Ajax based PHP action methods. The
user can change complete CRUD processes without page reload. The e-book selling websites are
very dynamic and complex applications. The amount of effort put into developing various

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features is also very hard to implement. In order to provide high usability, the website must
provide proper feedback to the user.
4. Contribution Chapters
4.1 Method
The project based on the development of an e-book platform is an important concept that
has been used in the present times. The development of the e-book platform, which has been
used in this project has been developed with the primary concept of helping students and other
people in order to find the latest kind of books that are available in the market. The bringing of
online technology in the market to link classrooms, libraries with the people has been considered
as much helpful concept that has been developed in the recent times (Tanjung and Dhewanto
2014). The use of web applications have also formed a major impact over improving the quality
of education that is being delivered. The teachers and students could unanimously make use of
the benefits offered by the new e-book platform. This type of way can be defined as the most
innovative way of improving the quality of education within the sector.
As discussed in the previous proposal of the research, the designed project would aim to
bridge the present kind of gap between books and learning experience for the students. Thus, the
primary aim of the development of the online e-book platform is to enhance and simplify the
entire learning experience for the students (Taddeo and Barnes 2016). The impact of digital
books is mainly focused over making the entire learning experience to be engaging and
interactive. The integration of e-books into the teaching and learning experience would help in
creation of much kind of engaging content. With the help of the e-book platform, students would
be provided with the capability to use a single website and device to store their books, which

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would be necessary to cover their entire syllabus (Abdallah and Jaleel 2015). This website could
also be used for used apart from students, which would help people to choose their favorite
books, purchase them and store them for reading in the future.
In the case of the current project, the descriptive method of research has been used. The
descriptive method of research has been mainly used for understanding the current problem that
is being faced by the people in the present times (Kirk, Ractham and Abrahams 2016). The
descriptive method of research provides an approach based on explanation of the present kind of
problems that are faced by the students and people in order to access books on the online
platform. The experiments and analysis over the present methods would help in reaching up to a
certain conclusion (Laporte, Hébert and Mineau 2014). In the present case, it has been seen that
there is a huge kind of problem faced when a customer or book lover would go to a retail store
and request for a certain book. It might happen that the book might be out of stock and which
could even take a lot of time to return back to stock. This creates a problem for the reader to gain
the book.
However from the analysis of the research, it can be seen that this technique provides a
certain characteristic to come up to a certain solution. During the performing of descriptive
research over the problem that has been discovered, certain research questions and analysis over
the data have been performed (Hung et al. 2014). However, a certain technique had also been
planned for the performing of research over the current problem. The technique that has mainly
been used for achieving the results from the research is known as purposive sampling technique.
The purposive sampling technique is also described as selective, judgmental or also could
be referred as subjective sampling and is a type of non-probability sampling technique. The
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characteristics that are found within a particular group of people (Benyon 2014). The sample of
data that has been collected could not be described as a certain representative of a particular
group of population but it could be described for researchers in order to pursue the mixed or
qualitative research designs.
Thus, this technique helps in focusing over the other sampling techniques in which the
units would be investigated based on the kind of judgment for the researcher. This technique is
mainly used for finding out the sample for the total number of users who would find a certain
kind of relevancy in the use of e-books (Surif et al. 2014). A questionnaire was prepared that
helped in understanding of the problem and the current situations that are being faced by people
in relation to selection of books. A softcopy and hardcopy of the entire questionnaire was
prepared that had collected the data. During preparing of the questionnaire, a certain number of
response had been selected from a particular group of people (Thüm et al. 2014). As per the
collected reports from the responses, it had been found that most of them were students while the
rest of them were considered to be not studying at school and thus could be considered as book
lovers.
An analysis was conducted over the data that had been collected. From further analysis
over the data, it had also been seen that most of the contribution towards the questionnaires,
almost 98% of the people were mostly aware of the e-book platforms while the others were not
aware of the concept (Jeon and Jeong 2017). The level of use for the e-books had also been
recognized from the study over the subject. The other factor that was being discovered was the
appropriate sources of the e-books. During performing the analysis over this part of the research,
it had also been found that nearly 51% of the people who make use of e-books would ensure that
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people also make use of Google books while the remaining of the people use different other kind
of online resources such as Amazon and many other platforms.
The analysis over the researched data also led to discussion over the fact over the number
of people who purchase books over the online platform. It could also be seen that most of the
people use online transactions for purchasing of books while other people would not trust over
the online transactions as they might lead to breach of data (Ong, Chang and Lee 2015). The
factor that provides motivation to online readers of e-book have also been discussed within the
report. E-books provide a wide range of benefits that reduces the effort required to carry the
books from the retail store to homes (Galassi 2017). On the other hand, e-book allows users to
search for a book on the online platform with a few keywords and find the appropriate book from
the huge database server.
However, in order to design the e-book platform, certain highly efficient technologies and
resources were also used for designing an efficient website. The particular technologies that were
used for designing the e-book platform are:
1. MySQL – The MySQL is defined as an Oracle based backend open source system
used for database management. The RDBMS system is primarily based on SQL. The MySQL
primarily runs over virtual platforms that includes UNIX, Linux and Windows operating system.
Although it could be used for running over a wide number of applications, the MySQL platform
could also be associated with online publishing and different other kind of web applications
(Gabryel 2016). The relational database management system helps in creation of tables in order
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The MySQL system also makes use of PHP technology for the fetching of information
from the database and thus displays the information to the different users of the website.
2. Server – The PHP can be defined as a server-side scripting language, which would
require a certain server for their working purposes. The Apache server has been used for hosting
data that would be stored over the database platform. The Apache can be discussed as an open
source platform that would work within the browser (Walia and Gill 2014). This server could be
used within the Linux O.S, MAC OS system and also within the Windows system.
4.2 Results
Based on the development of the project, it can be understood and discussed that the
results generated in the form of a website. This website is based on the purchasing of e-books.
The e-book would contain a list of the most searched books and other kind of books that are used
by book readers. A lot of research have been made over the use of coding platforms and the
server over which the website would be hosted (Thaker 2016). With the implementation of the
website, the search of books over the online platform would be increased to a huge extent. The
website has been built with the help of PHP coding and making use of the MySQL database for
storing the data in relation to books.
With the deriving of results over the features implemented and the accessibility of the
website, some of the points that could be discussed are:
1. Design Aspects – A user-friendly website could be defined as effective, which would
be able to transform the business as it would further help in putting a major impact over the
customers (Hasan 2016). Based on the understanding from the e-book website, some of the
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a) Color – Colors form an important visual effect for a website. The choosing of colors is
a most critical aspect. In this website, the colors that have been used are not too bright, which
could affect the vision of the users (Pallud and Straub 2014). Each of the chosen colors match
with the look and feel of the website. The colors, which have been used for the background have
a nice look and properly match with the fonts used.
b) Navigation – This aspect refers to the fact about the ways in which the menu of the
website would be set up and the ways in which the viewer would be able to find the different
important tabs and other areas. This website provides the different tabs in a clear format that
would be easily viewable by the users (Sreedhar 2016). The buttons and label menus have a clear
font and these buttons are separated from each other with proper spacing. The menu button is
present at each of the linked pages of the website, which further helps the user to return to the
home page or any other page directly by accessing the menu bar.
c) Alignment and Positioning – The elements present within the website are arranged in
a proper order. The flow of the included information are smooth within the website that further
help the user in understanding each of the aspects of the website and thus navigating through
each of the buttons within the website and satisfy their needs and expectations.
2. Implementation Processes – In spite of the traditional processes of website
development, the core part of design and website development would not be considered as to be
extremely necessary in the process of coding. During the process of website development for the
e-book library, the most common technologies that would be used are HTML, CSS and
JavaScript (Taddeo and Barnes 2016). The use of most important technologies would help in
bringing interactivity within the website. The most important steps that were planned for the
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In the primary position, the information would be gathered from the research proposal
about the type of website that would be developed. After the information would be gathered, the
planning processes and the design of the website would be planned. After these procedures have
been made, the assembly of the requirements would be made (Al Qeisi and Al-Abdallah 2014).
The coding for the website would be done based on making use of the most important
technologies and making the website more accessible to the users. PHP has been used for
scripting the server-side language.
Each of the static sections that are present within the website have been created exactly as
designed within the designing of mockup for the website. The process of interactivity and special
features within the website have been provided (Shobeiri, Mazaheri and Laroche 2014). Every
kind of inclusion of technology that is supported within the website have been forming a crucial
factor for the success criteria of the website.
3. Testing Approach – The process of testing can be discussed as one of the most
important feature for understanding the critical aspects of the website and understanding the
ways in which the website could be useful for the users. Thus, during the process of testing of
each included features within the website, it should be ensured that each of the links and features
would work properly (Polesel, Rice and Dulfer 2014). During the process of testing of the
website for the e-book library, it has been ensured that every kind of included script would work
properly. Code validators have been used during the testing of the website. This further helped to
ensure that the current code functionality would be matching with the standards of the current
web technologies.
During checking the functionality of the website, the compatibility factor of the website
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operating systems. The compatibility of the website with every kind of browser had also been
tested (Rovida et al. 2015). The usability testing of the website had also been planned in a proper
way such as to ensure that the website would be used by every kind of user and with ease. The
consistency within each of the working pages have also been maintained within the website.
The various kind of interactions made between the interfaces of application server and
web server have also been tested for the website. The website implements a most important
functionality that supports the displaying of error messages whenever any error would be
detected within the server (Zahran et al. 2014). The interaction between the database servers and
application servers have also been tested during the testing procedures. The fetching of data from
the backend database had also been validated. This helped in understanding that the interactions
made by the user to the website and the immediate response from the website had been shown.
However, security for the website had also been tested accordingly in order to ensure that
customers would feel safe during using the website and making purchase (Tupikovskaja-Omovie
et al. 2015). Most of the websites have a certain kind of vulnerability that customers face during
making of payments. Hence, security has also been implemented within the website to ensure
that each of the functionalities would be supported properly.
Survey was carried out with a total of 192 respondents participating in the survey. The
survey was held among two groups of people, school students and non-schools students. Two
groups of people participated in the survey stating their view about the online eBook system.
This project deals with developing an online eBook system with the views from the customer to
build up the online system.
The online eBook system that is being developed in this project is efficient and is built
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total respondents participated in the survey, some of the respondents were from high schools and
some of the respondents are not from high schools. They are passed out from the high school.
Total number of high school students and non-high school students
This results shows the level of respondents who are from school and the number of
respondents who are not from high school. Out of the total respondents who participated in the
survey, the total number of participants who were from high schools were 83 %. Whereas, the
total number of respondents who have passed out their high schools and are presently not in high
school. The total number of participants in the survey is 192 and the total number of participants
participated from high school were 160. Total of 160 students were from high schools whereas
only 32 of the total 192 respondents were from outside the high school. The 32 responses of the
total non-school student results to 17 % of the total respondents participated in the survey. The
below diagram shows the graph stating the high school students and non-high school students.
83%
17%
School and non-school students
Studying in high school Not studying in high school
Figure 1: High school and non-high school respondents
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The second question that was asked to the respondents was about their awareness of the
eBook. They were asked about how aware they are of with the eBook that are available on the
internet. This below diagram shows the total number of respondents aware of eBooks and total
number of respondents who are not aware of the eBooks. This analysis was taken in two parts,
one part for the school students and the other part for the non-school students.
The diagram below states the students aware of eBooks in the system. The below
diagram shows that only 2 % of the total users were not aware of the eBooks and the other 98 %
were aware of the use of eBooks. They know the importance of eBook and how eBooks have
helped them in their studies and the how they have been benefitted with the use of eBooks. 2%
states that only 3 people out of 160 school students were not aware of the eBooks. Other 157
respondents are school students were aware of the eBook usage over the internet.
98%
2%
Awareness of eBooks in school
students
Aware of eBooks Not aware of eBooks
Figure 2: Awareness level that eBook exists among high school students
The diagram below states the diagrammatic view of all the non-school students who
participated in the survey. The below diagram states that 30 % of the non-school students were
not aware of the eBook facilities over the internet. The 30 % of the total non-school students
were 10 non-school respondents associated in the survey. Whereas, 70 % of the total non-school
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number of 23 from the total non-school respondents who understands the usage of eBooks. The
below diagram states the diagrammatic representation of the data that were collected from the
survey.
70%
30%
Awareness of eBooks among non-
school students
Aware of eBooks Not aware of eBooks
Figure 3: Awareness level that eBook exists among non-high school students
Level of Use of eBook
The next question that was asked to the respondent who were aware of eBooks. Total
number of respondents including the school students and the non-high school students were
taken in to consideration. Total number of respondents were 180 who were aware of the use are
eBooks. The below diagram shows the respondents who use free accessible books, use Google
Books and non-students who uses e Books. This diagram states the there are some common
respondents who are common in all three sections. This indicates that those users takes all kinds
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Figure 4: Level of Use of eBook
Sources of eBooks
The next question that was asked to the respondents were about their sources of eBooks
that they access. This survey was mainly carried out within those users who were aware of the
eBooks usage. There were total 160 respondents who were using eBooks and among those the
survey was carried out. As per the data, 51 % of the total eBook user used free resources of
eBooks, 32 % of them used Google books as their eBooks and other remaining 17 % used
resources from the online store. The below number shows the details of the data that was
analyzed after the survey being carried out. Among 79 respondents used resources of eBooks, 50
person use google books, and 26 respondents use online book store for reading their online
eBooks.
Use of free
accessible
books
Non-students
using eBooks
Use of Google
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51%
32%
17%
Source of eBooks
Use free resources of ebooks
Use google books
use resources from online book store
Figure 5: Sources of eBooks
Purchase online items
The second last question that was asked to the respondents was related to their online
purchase. As per their data provided by all the respondents, 56 % of the respondents including
school as well as non-school respondents uses the internet for their online shopping, 38 % of the
respondents do not trust the online transactions. They think that might lead to fraud of money
and they cannot trust online transactions. About only 17 % of the respondents states that they do
not know anything about online shopping.
56%38%
6%
Purchase online items
Using Internet for online
User not trusting online transactions
Do not know online shopping
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Motivation to use eBook
The last question that was asked to the respondents were about their motivation they get
from the eBook. There were in total 90 % of the total users of eBook readers stating that eBook
has helped them to read more books. Out of this 90 %, 63 % only agreed and other 27 % strongly
agreed with the following fact. From the strongly believers, 90 % of the users stated that they
like eBooks because they can read in comfort. Among the system, 96 % of the eBook reader
finds it easy because it is portable and this would help to increase the reading of eBook in the
system.
Figure 7: Motivation to use eBook
4.3 Discussion
After a critical form of evaluation of the website, certain kind of recommendations based
on making certain changes to the website have been planned. The most critical aspects in relation
to the website that have been evaluated and explained properly based on suggesting
recommendation for improvements are being discussed as follows:
1. Functionality – The factor of functionality within the website is considered as one of
the most important factor. Although the fetching of data from the online database server has been
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fast within the website, yet at some moments these data fetching aspects have been critical and
takes certain amount of time (Mallapragada, Chandukala and Liu 2016). Users would expect that
they would provide the search queries and the result would be displayed immediately. During the
testing of the website application, the tester should be able to ensure that the cookies that would
be supported within the website should be in an enabled and disabled position. The developer of
the website should implement proper kind of encryption standards for the cookies.
However, the user of the website should be able to delete the cookies in order to ensure
that the security across each of the pages within the website is maintained properly. The website
should be able to display important messages such as the display of errors created within the
system and displaying of error messages whenever any login functionality fails (Tandon, Kiran
and Sah 2018). Students who would register within the website should be provided with a
functionality to choose the different categories of books. The internal calculation of prices done
within the coding section should be provided with a functionality that would be able to calculate
the discount prices of e-books whenever a student would purchase. They should be provided
with some extra discount whenever they would purchase a book from the e-book library website.
2. Compatibility – The website would be accessed on a global basis. Hence, the factor of
compatibility is one of the most important factor that should be included within the developed
website. The tester who would be testing the entire website after the process of development
should firstly check whether the website would be compatible with the different operating
systems. The website should be accessible from mobile browsers and from the perspective of
printing of the e-books (Chow, Bridges and Commander 2014). The appearance of the website
should also be designed in such a manner that it would be able to fit within different monitors
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It has also been seen that many low quality designed websites do not fit properly within
every kind of monitor. The content supported at each of the margins within the website should be
properly visible at each of the corners of the website and should be easily viewed by each user.
3. Usability Factors – The users who would be navigating within the website should be
capable of navigating through each of the areas within the website with an easy approach. The
text and fonts used within the website should also be clearly visible and read by every user. A
proper surfing through the different included web pages would indicate that consistency within
the web pages have been maintained properly by the developers. Testers who would be testing
within the system should check the content of each of the pages (Kosinski et al. 2014). They
should also test the factor that each of the books that would be purchased by the customers
should be performed in an efficient manner.
The ‘Add to Cart’ functionality should also be added within the website. This
functionality would help the user to add a certain number of books within their cart. This number
would add or get subtracted based on the type of functionality performed by the user. Any update
that would be made within the website or added functionality should be updated to the user. The
cart functionality would also help the user to track the books that would be viewed by them and
stored for future references.
4. Security Features – In the present times, security features that are implemented within
a website are a matter of high discussion. A website should be properly tested and each of the
included features within the website should be encrypted with proper kind of coding. The
security tester working over the website should check for any kind of login bypasses if made
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also be put in force within the website that would help the user to remain protected during
making use of the website.
The e-book can incur different kind of security attacks, which could be posed by hacker
groups. These hackers might try to breach in within the data supported by the website and pose
attacks towards the internal database server. They could thus try to steal the e-books in an
improper way. The different attacks that could be posed by hackers are SQL Injection that could
be posed towards the SQL statements. Another kind of attack that could be posed is known as
cross-side scripting. Hence, in order to mitigate the above discussed situations from the website,
the developers should implement the best form of security features. The use of SHA1 and MD5
could be used within the internal scripting based on encrypting the password.
Validation of the form that would be provided as input by the user should be supported
within the application. The user input should not be trusted initially and hence the developers
should include some clauses that would help in checking the correct form of user input
(Riquelme and Román 2014). Hence, any kind of wrong information entered should be detected
within the internal scripting of the website.
5. In-built Features – The e-book application has been designed in such a manner that it
would help other users to view the post or comments made by other users over a certain product.
However, this feature could only be accessible if a certain user has logged in to their account.
This feature should also be accessible to users who would register within the website. Any kind
of feedback or review posted by a registered user should be visible to each group of users who
would be purchasing books from the website. This kind of functionality would be considered to
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user that would be supported within the website would include the data within the server. This
data would be created as an output within the website.
The payment factor should also be upgraded within the website. The users should be able
to save their card details within the website. This would help them to make an easy mode of
purchase during their next payment of any book. However, the security factor of cards should
also be implemented for the benefit of the users. Users should be provided with recent offers
from the website. This should be put as an attraction for the user at the home page of the website.
Such kind of interesting and attracting functionality would help in attracting the attention of
customers.
6. Maintenance of the website – Every user using the website would have an
expectation that the entire website would function in a proper way such as it would help in
increasing the engagement of users. Hence, the delivery of the website application should occur
only after a proper kind of testing of each included features. A certain feedback system should be
supported within the website that would allow permission to the users to provide feedback about
the current website system. There might be different kind of problems that might be faced by
users when they would be use the website.
A help center should be supported within the website that would help the customers to
report about the problems or suggest some kind of suggestions to the developers to include
within the next updates to the software application. Fixing of problems that would be present
within the current application should be resolved. Users of an e-book library would have certain
expectations from the current website, which should be met by the development team. Any kind
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might not avail such kind of service in the future. Hence, the website that would be designed
should have many kind of engaging content that could be reviewed by the users.
The website should also include a chat option that would help users to provide direct
feedback or raise concerns to the internal team of the website. The customers should also be
assisted with their queries at the most appropriate time so that they would be feel a sense of
importance from the website. The developers within the website should also continuously update
the important aspects within the website. Regular kind of updates provided within the website
would be highly helpful in order to prevent bugs that might arise within the system. Decreasing
the security risks that might arise within the website would be helpful for protecting the
confidentiality and authenticity of the user.
4.4 Process Review
There are diverse categories of methods and technologies which were deployed in this
dissertation.
The methods which are deployed in this research are descriptive research which was
chosen as investigation category of this dissertation.
Descriptive design can be defined as the type of design which are used for studying a
topic in a descriptive manner. It is one of the most rational approach which can be selected for
research purposes and the biggest advantage of selecting this research design is that it can be
very much helpful to observe and describe the behavior of a subject in a descriptive manner
(Wildemuth 2016). Measurements of this subjects can be done in an organized manner using this
research design. Descriptive design can be very much significant to understand the association
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be considered in the first place using this research design. Validation of each of the data which
are described in this research is one of the most signification contribution of this research design.
Selection of the software development method is very much significant in most of the
software development projects. There are diverse categories of software development
methodologies which are deployed in these projects such as Waterfall, Agile, Spiral model, agile
model. This software development project considered agile software development methodology
as the needs and expectations of the consumers of the e-book keeps on changing every moment.
The testing procedure of the development phase gets much more re-assessed as agile
methodology is selected in this project. The core value of software development procedure can
be maintain in the first place after the incorporation of this software development methodology.
The scheduling of each phase of this software development project like designing phase,
development phase and testing phase (Sekaran and Bougie 2016). New opportunities in the
software development can be created using this software development method as well. The work
divisions of the project by also be sorted in the first place due to the selection of the agile
software development procedure.
Any sort of uncertainties of the project can be examined in the first place using this agile
software development procedure, at the same time it can also be said that very less amount of
planning is required in this project due to the selection of this software development
methodology. Each feature of this website based application can be reviewed and examined in
the first place using this software development procedure as well. User acceptance is one of the
most significant criteria of this software development model and it can be very much helpful to
maintain security in each phase of this project (Mills et al. 2016). Communication is one of the
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complications as well as the confusions of the software development in terms of the selection of
programming languages. The different steps of agile methodology are discussed in the following
diagram.
(Figure 8: Categories of agile software development)
(Source: Eriksson and Kovalainen 2015)
There are diverse categories of sampling procedures which are generally considered
across research paper such as the non-probabilistic sampling method, purposive sampling
method and probabilistic sampling method. Each of these diverse categories of sampling method
have their own characteristics and each one of them are very much essential to analyze the data
collected from different sources (Eriksson and Kovalainen 2015). The selection of the sampling
method has to be depended on the data collection and the data analysis procedures. Overview of
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research paper. The sampling method of this paper is 192. The sampling method which was
chosen in this dissertation is the purposive sampling technique. This sampling method falls under
the category of non-probabilistic sampling technique.
The cultural domain can be managed and knowledgeable experts can understand using
this sampling method. This sampling method can be very much useful for both qualitative and
quantitative analysis technique. Purposive sampling can be very much significant in order to
maintain the consistency of the data which is collected from various sources in this paper. The
cost of this sampling method is much less than the other sampling techniques which are
commonly used in the purposive sampling techniques (Lune and Berg 2016). Very less amount
of time is required in this sampling method. It is one of the most significant aspect of a research
paper as it helps to make a judgment based on the analysis of the collected data. Linking of each
of the data collected can also be done in an organized manner using the purposive sampling
method. Statistical representation of the collected data is possible using this sampling method as
well.
There are diverse categories of technologies which shall be deployed in this project such
as the MySQL which is an open source database. There are diverse categories of positives and
negatives associated with using MySQL as the database. The positive includes the user
friendliness of the system, inexpensive is the other advantage associated with this database
(Snelson 2016). MySQL database is one of the most popular database which are increasingly
used by the software developers all around the world. There are very less stability issues
associated with the incorporation of MySQL as the database, at the same time it can also be said
that there are very less scaling issues associated with incorporating MySQL as the database for
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Different categories of programming languages are used for the development of software
such as PHP and Java. The selection of the programming language depends entirely on the
developer which develops each of the functionality of the new system. There are several criteria
behind the selection of a programming language such as the maintenance of the codes of the
programming language and the optimization of the codes (Torabi et al. 2015). The programming
language which was selected in this project is PHP which is an object oriented programming
language which do not have any sort of compatibility issue with the browsers which are most
recently used by the users. The speed of the codes is very much on the higher side as compared
with the specifications of the other programming languages like Java. Additional codes can also
be customized inside a PHP code. Testing of the functionality of each options can be done in an
organized manner if PHP is used as the programming language in the backed of the system. Most
of the security issues can be resolved in the first if PHP is used as the programming language.
There are very less maintenance cost associated with this programming language as well.
There are different types of server which are used in software development project and
the loading time of the systems are depended on the selection of the server. The advantages of
Apache server includes its enhanced usability and reliability. The availability of the free codes is
on the higher side for this server. This server is used by most of the software developers all
around the world. But, it can also be said that there are diverse issues associated with the Apache
server in terms of the stability issues cause due to the self-modification (Rooney and Evans
2018). The other limitations associated with Apache Webserver are the creation of the
personalized protocol, creation of new bugs, strict updating policy, and creation of unwanted
services which leads to serious threats (Mertens 2014). However, it can also be said that
considering each of the limitations of this server it can be said that the specifications of this

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server is much higher as compared with the other apache. Loss of Permission is the other
disadvantage associated with the deployment of the Apache server.
The technical support of Apache server is much more as compared with the other
different categories of servers. There are very less compatibility issues associated with the
deployment of apache server in terms of the hardware compatibilities. Thus, it can be said that
the selection of each of these methods and technologies are very much relevant in this project
considering that the specifications of tis application has to be revised according the necessities of
the consumers of this website. The advantages and limitations of each of these technologies were
analyzed before selecting then in this software development project.
5. Conclusion
This unit of the dissertation will be very much significant to understand the achievements
of this research in a detailed manner. The certain as well as the uncertainties of this research shall
also be discussed in section of the paper.
There are diverse categories of uncertainties associated with this research in terms
of the selection of the software and hardware of the e-book system as the needs and expectations
of the consumers of this industry is always subjected to major changes. The uncertainties
includes the selection of the web server like Apache which was selected as the server for this
website based application. There are diverse categories of uncertainties associated with this
research in terms of the selection of the languages used in the architectural phase of this software
development project. The uncertainties of this project also includes the selection of the software
development life cycle as there are positives and negatives associated with each of the different
categories of software development.

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The selection of PHP as the programming language in this research was full of
uncertainties as there are diverse categories of frameworks which are associated with PHP.
Adding the functionality can be a lot easier due to the selection of PHP as the main programming
language in this software. Selection of the appropriate frameworks was a huge challenge after the
selection of the design phase of this project. The behavior of the codes cannot always be
modified across the PHP frameworks which was the other uncertainties of associated with this
project. Selection of HTML as the prime programming language for the design part of this
project was very much certain due to the advantages provided by this programming language.
There are lots limitations associated with this research paper which will be discussed in
this part of the dissertation. Each of these limitations played a significant part on the completion
time of this proposal. The prime limitations of this research are management of time in each
phase of this software development project. Management of time in both the design phase and
the developmental phase was a huge challenge in this project as there are few uncertainties
associated with this research in terms of the selection of the software developmental
methodologies, selection of programming language in the backend systems. Time of data
collection was a huge challenge in this research as huge amount of time is required in both the
primary and secondary data collection procedure. More than 192 samples were considered in the
primary data collection procedure. More time was required to collected data from each of those
192 samples thus the identification of the functional and the nonfunctional requirements of this
project took more time which was not predicted during the early stages of this project.
Considering the secondary data collection procedure it can be said that selection of the peer
reviewed was a huge challenge and huge amount of time was required in order to select the exact
data. Managing the budget in each phase of this project was the other limitations associated with

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this research. The cost of hardware and the software associated with this project keeps on
changing every moment such as the selection of software which was used in the design phase of
this project. The cost of the editor keeps on changing every moment which was one of the prime
limitation of this project. Huge amount of money was required in order to store the data securely
on the cloud servers so that the reliability of the data is maintained in this research. There are
limitations associated with the secondary data collection procedure as well such as the
maintaining the quality of the data, selection of the peer reviewed articles and identification of
the accurate data. Sufficiency is the other challenge associated with this secondary data
collection procedure. Applicability of the chosen data was a huge concern in this research paper
as huge amount of research is required to find the accurate data in this paper. Step by step of the
website development procedure required huge amount of time and money as the application was
made in such a way so that there are very less limitations associated this application both in
terms of loading time. Thus, it can be said that selection of the data was one of the most
significant limitations associated with this research.
This website based software was developed using PHP as the prime programming
language and optimized codes of PHP was deployed in this project. There are numerous
functional as well as non-functional requirements associated with this online e-book system.
However, this system can be updated in the future where new features can be incorporated in
terms of the 24hour online chat service for the consumers of this application. The online chat
service will be very much useful in this application as it will be able to store and resolve the
queries and the complaints coming from the consumers of this website. The other additional
feature which can be added in this website is the push notification feature as both the admin as
well as the consumers of this website will be notified whenever there is a huge discount during

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the festive seasons. The existing loading time of this website can also be revised which will be
very much useful for the consumers of this application. The searching option which is currently
there in this website can also be modified and revised into a more SEO friendly website. The
entire design of the dashboard can be changed as optimized PHP codes were used in this project.
The navigation facility of this website based application can also be revised in order to meet the
needs and expectation of the next generation students. One of the most significant future work
which can be incorporated in this website based application is the introduction of the Google
Analytics which can be very much useful to track wide range of metrics in terms of traffic
volume and visitor of the behavior. The other feature which can be incorporated in this website
based application is the feedback platform where each of the stakeholders involved in this
business can discuss about any topic such as the prices of the books.
This dissertation is very much significant to understand that needs and expectation of the
high school students can be easily managed using this online E-book system which was
developed using PHP. The limitations of this project was understood in this dissertation paper in
terms of the selection of the programming language and selection of the programming language
which will be very much useful to make this project. The availability of journals, books
considering various categories like fiction, non-fiction, thriller, poems, and horrors can be very
much significant for the users of this website. Thus, it can be said that this website based
application can be very much useful for the readers in order to purchase books according to their
necessities.

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