E-Book Website Project Proposal

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E-Book website
Project proposal

Table of Contents
1.0. INTRODUCTIONS..............................................................................................................3
1.2.1 Motivation.....................................................................................................................3
1.2.2 Definition...................................................................................................................3
1.2.3 Online motivation......................................................................................................3
1.2.4 Population increase in motivation.............................................................................3
1.2.5 Online shopping motivation......................................................................................4
1.3 Background...................................................................................................................4
1.4 Context & Research Problem............................................................................................4
2.0. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................4
2.1. Aims...................................................................................................................................4
2.1. Objectives..........................................................................................................................4
3.0. LITERATURE REVIEW.....................................................................................................5
3.1. Introduction.......................................................................................................................5
3.2. E-books vs. libraries..........................................................................................................5
3.3. E-book format...................................................................................................................5
3.4. online E-book website.......................................................................................................6
3.5. E-book usage by student...................................................................................................6
3.6. Impact of reading E-books by young people....................................................................6
3.7. E-books and reading Enjoyment.......................................................................................6
3.8. Reading experiences across modalities.............................................................................7
3.9. Existing Market.................................................................................................................7
3.9.1. Amazon.com..............................................................................................................7
3.9.2. Google Books............................................................................................................7
3.9.3. Book depository.........................................................................................................8
3.9.4. Kinokuniya................................................................................................................8
3.9.5. Asian Digital library..................................................................................................8
3.9.6. Findings.....................................................................................................................8
4.0. Ethical consideration and data protection.............................................................................8
4.1. Data protection..................................................................................................................8
4.2. Security measure...............................................................................................................9
4.3. Website design ethics........................................................................................................9
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4.4. Copyrights.........................................................................................................................9
4.5. Book Piracy.......................................................................................................................9
5.0. RESEARCH METHOD.......................................................................................................9
5.1. Findings and analysis......................................................................................................10
5.1.1. Awareness level that E-book exist...........................................................................10
5.1.2. Level of use of E-book............................................................................................10
5.1.3. Sources of E-books..................................................................................................10
5.1.4. How many user purchase items online....................................................................10
5.1.5. What motivates the use E-book...............................................................................10
5.2. Challenges faced by E-book readers...............................................................................10
5.3. work plan.........................................................................................................................11
6.0. TECHNOLOGIES AND RESOURCES............................................................................11
6.1. Technologies...................................................................................................................11
6.1.1. MySQL....................................................................................................................11
6.1.2. SERVER......................................................................................................................11
6.2. Resources........................................................................................................................11
6.3. Conclusion......................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................12
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1.0. INTRODUCTIONS
Web applications have helped the world by putting daily task we perform in a straight forward
way and has made our lives easy. To overcome the problem of learning web applications can be
used to bring the library resources close to the users which they can access by use of their mobile
phones or computers (Qaffas, 2012). In the past, the e-book system was done manually, where
the user will visit the library get registered on a piece of paper or a record book. When the
student wants a book he will be given a receipt stating the book number and the price of the
book. This procedure was time-consuming and needed a lot of paperwork. Nowadays the
libraries are being replaced with the use of soft copies where user access books on a website
(McNaught & Alexander, 2014). The E-book website will reduce the effort that is required by
the users to visit the library frequently, most people lack enough time to visit the libraries; thus
reading is becoming a difficult task for them (McNaught & Alexander, 2014). The project will
make it easy for the user to access the books they desire and make it easy for the user to read the
books by subscribing to the platform, users can access books and save the books to their local
machines.
1.2.1 Motivation
Motivation push people to buy product or service due to something that motivates them. Users
are driven by the same motives which are wants or need.
1.2.2 Definition
Motivation has a wide range of meaning depending on the field where it is being used. While
business dictionary defines motivation as Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and
energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make
an effort to attain a goal.
1.2.3 Online motivation
The number of users who go online is increasing every day, and this is one of the motives that
encouraged us to build an online E-book website. The system will have all categories of books,
and it will be easy to search for a book, this will allow both computer literates and illiterates to
access the books they want quickly.
1.2.4 Population increase in motivation
One of the primary motivation for coming up with this project is the rate at which the world
population is increasing. With the high rise in society, the number of libraries is remaining
constant. This has discouraged lot of readers from visiting the libraries because of congestion.
With the E-book system, there will be high online traffic to ensure the system has no downfalls
when a large number of users access the system at the same time. The E-book system offers easy
access to the book. Online access to books is flexible and will attract a lot of users who don't
have time to visit the library because of their tight schedule (Chimah J, 2013).
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