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At eBookJoint Publishing, LLC, we create unique ebooks from Antiquarian (antique) books.

We've combined a love of history, and reading, and learning, with expertise in

computers and programming to create a unique product that we hope you'll
enjoy.

We specialize in 'American Era' historical/nonfiction subjects.

Our ebooks are high quality works that are menu driven, colorful, soundful, searchable,  printable, bookmarkable, enjoyable, and were designed with the History Buffs, Students, and Teachers, in mind.

It seems like most ebooks sold on the Internet, today, are available for immediate downloading. Our publications, by their very nature and quality,
are simply too large for downloading; they are delivered on a CD ROM, and installed on your computer. (Though there are some smaller publications that can be download).

Unlike other ebooks, you do not need any special software to read them; ours are standalone programs that will run on XP equipped PC’s with the usual multimedia capabilities that come standard on most computers.

The look and feel of our publications is unique. Instead of just a digital representation of the original book, we actually disassemble the original book, and reassemble into a more user friendly format.

For instance, our publications are Menu Driven. The user navigates through the publication by pressing screen buttons, and/or the mouse buttons. If you like to read books and study the associated images, you’ll like our ebooks; with a simple click, you can enlarge any image, read more about it, and then return to your text. Footnotes ? Just mouse-over the note to read it.

Images can be viewed along with the text, and/or individually, and/or in slideshows.

What is an Antiquarian Book ?

An antiquarian book is simply an old book; an antique book. They are rare,

and out-of-print books that collectors like to own.

The books themselves are usually delicate because of their age, and are not really suitable for reading. When we convert a book to an ebook, the contents of the book are presented in total, and include all of the original text, and images (photographs/illustrations).

If you are a collector of Antiquarian books, then you probably wouldn’t want to have an ebook in place of the actual printed book, but, why not have both ? “You can have your book, and read it too !”

Why Buy an Antiquarian eBook ?

There are a limited number of antiquarian books that exist in the world today, and that are also available to the general public. Many are very hard to find.

And if you are able to buy an old book; say one that is over a 100 years old, you probably won't sit down and read it for fear of destroying the book; they just are not sturdy enough to read.

So a big advantage of having an antiquarian book in an ebook format is that you can, in fact, read the book without damaging, or destroying the book. And the ebook is preserved for many years to come; you'll never have to worry about the pages fading, or curling, or becoming damaged, etc. It's something that can be enjoyed for many years.

History Buffs, Students, Teachers

I am a History Buff; a permanent Student; I love to read about history.

When I read history books, I love to study the associated pictures, and illustrations, and photographs, etc. Our publications primarily include "American Era" topics, though not necessarily American-only topics. Our publications make it easy to read through the text, and then jump to associated picture(s), with captions, and then easily return to the text. Pictures add a lot to the subject, so you'll find that most of our publications contain an ample amount of pictures.

You can bookmark as many pages as you like, return at a later time. And, you can word search the publication, and then jump directly to a desired page; anyone doing research on a given subject would find this a valuable tool. In most cases, the reader can print-out a page of text, or a picture; a very handy feature for the student doing research.

Okay, so, why would anyone want to read history from an Antiquarian book ? Why not ? Practically speaking, almost any Antiquarian book can be considered a history book; regardless of the subject, it must still have some sort of historical value, even if that was not the original intent.

In my opinion, and a big reason why I like to read them, is that they provide a unique perspective that is not available in modern, current day, re-written, re-hashed, and often, politically sanitized,  history text.

For example, in the Civil War Through The Camera, the book does tell the basic history of the war; the sequence of events, the major battles (with pictures), etc. But it also talks about honor, and idealism, and honesty, boldness, and bravery; fighting for a cause (whether a Union, or Confederate soldier); it's a very dramatic telling of the story, one that I haven't seen in modern texts, one that you probably  would not see.....

The language, and style, and the prose, are unique to the time; even some of the language, and the words themselves add to the whole experience.

Plus.... they are simply fun to read; I know I cannot help but smile as I read through an old book, or magazine, and get a real feel for those times, and those days, long past, that were the norm of that era.

Enjoy !