About e-book

An e-book (also: eBook, ebook), sometimes called an electronic book, is an electronic (or digital) equivalent of a conventional printed book. The term has occasionally been used ambiguously to refer to either an individual work in a digital format, or a hardware device used to read books in digital format, more specifically called an e-book device or e-book reader. E-books are an emerging and rapidly changing technology, that can branch to include other formats, such as online magazines, such as the Grantville Gazette, published by Baen’s Books, or digital books designed to be listened to as audio books.

The term e-text is a broader term than e-book, and is also used for the particular case of data in ASCII text format, rather than books in proprietary file formats. It also includes the academic e-text, which commonly contains components such as facsimile images, apparatus criticus, and scholarly commentary on the work from one or more editors specially qualified to edit the author or work in question.
An e-book is commonly bundled by a publisher for distribution (as an e-book, an ezine, or an Internet newspaper), whereas e-text is distributed in plain text on the Web, or in the case of academic works, in the form of discrete media such as compact discs. Metadata relating to the text are sometimes included with etext (though it appears more frequently with e-book). Metadata commonly include details about author, title, publisher, and copyright date; less common are details regarding language, genre, relevant copyright conventions, etc.

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About e-book

11 Responses to “About e-book”

Happy Desperado says:

July 17, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful or were her eyes so beautiful because she was loved?
Crazy Commander says:

July 17, 2007 at 2:23 pm

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and to do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
Pesty Ninja says:

July 17, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Because of what you have done the heavens have become part of man’s world… For one priceless moment in the whole history of man all of the people on this Earth are truly one.
Amazing Pupil says:

July 17, 2007 at 2:26 pm

One ship drives east and the other drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. ‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales Which tells us the way to go.
Amazing Beggar says:

July 17, 2007 at 2:29 pm

Till we watch the last low star, Let us love and let us take Of each other all we are. On some morning with that star One of us shall lie awake, Lonely for the other’s sake.
Gentlemen Specialist says:

July 17, 2007 at 4:28 pm

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings…
Bitter aspect says:

July 19, 2007 at 10:34 am

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them… THOMAS PAINE, I Writings of Thomas Paine at 56 (1894)
Excessive attainment says:

September 25, 2007 at 4:38 am

Man’s mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. The committee judged the promises and offers of this mission to be impossible, vain, and worthy of rejection: that (it) was not proper to favor an affair that rested on such weak foundations and which appeared uncertain and impossible…

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Beloved speed says:

October 19, 2007 at 11:47 pm

If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight — George Gobel
shard-borne conversation says:

October 22, 2007 at 8:58 am

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? — David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urging for investment in the radio in the 1920s
Warner Clasby says:

July 14, 2010 at 3:18 pm

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