E-Books:
An ebook is an electronic (or digital) version
of a book. The term is used ambiguously to refer
to either an individual work in a digital format,
or a hardware device used to read books in digital
format. Some users deprecate the second meaning
in favor of the more precise "ebook device."
The term e-text is often used synonymously with
the term ebook, and is also used for the more
limited case of data in ASCII text format, while
the more general [e-book] can be in a specialized
(and, at times, proprietary) file format. An
exception to this rule is the academic e-text,
which commonly includes 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 ebook is commonly bundled by a publisher
for distribution (as an ebook, an ezine, or
an internet newspaper), whereas e-text is distributed
in ASCII (or plain text), or in the case of
academic works, in the form of discrete media
such as compact discs. |
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