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
