تطور الكتب الإلكترونية و مدى تحقيقها لتوقعات مستخدميها بمجال إتاحة المعلومات

Abstract EN

The information revolution has led to the doubling of human knowledge and its accumulation at a terrible speed, especially scientific and technological knowledge.

Globalization has brought down time and distance barriers and opened up all avenues of information and knowledge flow through a network that has connected all people in one closed circle, Technology has been the crucial link for economic progress, resulting in the transformation of the world economy into an economy based primarily on scientific knowledge or the knowledge-based knowledge economy resulting from many civil and technological research, In which the scientific and technological knowledge in some countries is estimated at 80% of its economy.

computers, communications, information technology, fields of education so that the learner uses all IT equipment, and multimedia, for getting information (King Abdulaziz University, 1425 AH.) Education has invested this advanced technology in a parallel way in its entire means.

The use of these technologies in the classrooms and in the educational institutions departments has been established and an integrated education based on these techniques has been established.

It is called e-learning or virtual learning, and One of the most important means of information technology equipment used in the field of elearning is electronic books.

The question here is: Has the development of ICT technology and technologies been characterized by advantages that met the requirements of the users of these technologies, especially the users of electronic books?, So that the dissemination and optimal access to information by all groups is facilitated by easy way and non-time-consuming, and Has the technological development in the field of information science responded to all the needs of its users over the past ten years?, as demonstrated by the study by Henke (2002), which set the expectations and requirements of electronic books users in 2002.

The study aims to presenting the requirements of the ICT users and the users of the ebooks, and the expectations of these users, and the study aims to verifying of these expectations and advantages by presenting the completed and applied technological and technological applications in the area of information dissemination and its accessibility through Use e-books.

The knowledge society emerged as a result of the emergence of the knowledge economy resulting from the inherent interconnection of various phenomena, such as: the communications revolution, the phenomenon of information explosion and the widespread use of information technology, which allowed the creation of a knowledge-based economy, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an integral part of most social, economic, political and educational activities, and makes profound structural changes in all aspects of life (Jamil; waieh, 2006).

Computers technology represented by the Internet has placed a major role in transferring the information and technological revolution, which is the building block of the knowledge society, from north to south, through the East and the West at the same time.

All this has put its weight on all political, economic, cultural, educational and social fields.

,(Abbas,2004, 145), The most important of them is the e-learning field of the educational systems of the societies which seeking to transform into a knowledge society.

Advanced technology has imposed the principle of the necessity of benefiting from this field in order to acquire knowledge, such as the invasion of