E-book

As a generic term, an electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book or e-edition, digital book) is a book-publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices.

Description

Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", many e-books exist without any printed equivalent.

Commercially produced and sold e-books are usually intended to be read on dedicated e-readers.

However, almost any sophisticated electronic device that features a controllable viewing screen, including computers, tablets and smartphones can also be used to read e-books.

E-book reading is increasing in the US; by 2014 28% of adults had read an e-book, compared to 23% in 2013. This is increasing because 50% of American adults by 2014 had a dedicated device, either an e-reader or a tablet, compared to 30% owning such a device by the end of 2013.

See also

• Accessible publishing
• Book scanning
• Blook
• Cell phone novel
• Digital library
• Electronic document
• Flexible electronics
• LaTeX
• List of digital library projects
• Networked book
• Online book
• TeX
• Tablet computer
• Web fiction

External links

• E-book @ Wikipedia