eBook

The electronic version of a book that can be read on a computer or other electronic device. Unlike ink and paper, there is no standard format. Adobe, Microsoft, and others use their own formats and Amazon, Sony, and others have issued portable ebook readers with proprietary formats.  In addition, digital rights management may not allow works to be shared with others who have the same device.

The advantages of an ebook include bookmarking, annotation by the reader, full text searching, and adjustable type size.  Portable devices allow the user to carry and access numerous books in a minimal amount of space compared to the size and weight of paper books.  Users also can obtain their reading material, some for free, by downloading rather than going to a brick-and-mortar store or having it shipped to them.

Criticisms of the ebook include readability issues, battery life, and the inability for some graphics or other content to be reproduced.  In addition, while the cost of an ebook is generally less than the physical copy, there are complaints of price given the comparative cost of production and distribution.  To date, though, one of the biggest criticisms is that it's hard to curl up with an ebook.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “eBook”

• Dual-screen enTourage eDGe ebook reader gets a little hands-on time

  
  Engadget — Authority: 880
  Were still reserving our doubts about the viability of the enTourage eDGe -- after all, at $490 you can buy yourself a respectable netbook and a halfway decent ereader for the appropriate occasion -- but we wont say that were not interested. Just under a month after it hit the scene, the dual-screen device has ...
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• Dulin’s Books rebranded e-book readers, the PocketBook 360 and 301+

  
  Mobilewhack.com — Authority: 644
  Unlike the Intel Reader, these readers from Dulin’s Books are just readers. The PocketBook 301+ and PocketBook 360 are really rebranded readers with 400 MHz Samsung processors, 512MB flash storage, an expandable microSD slot, and support for six languages. The Pocketbook 360 has a 5-inch display, plus an ...
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• Intel’s Reader is not what you think. It’s better, but comes with a price.

  
  Mobilewhack.com — Authority: 644
  As soon as I saw the words “Intel Reader”, I couldn’t help but think: “not another reader”. However, Intel’s Reader is not just made to store book materials, it will read to you from a book. All you need to do is use the reader to take a picture of the book, and [...]
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• Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 519
  B&N announced yesterday that beginning around Dec. 1, Canadian customers will have access to the U.S. retailer’s e-book store and will be able to download titles to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. However, B&N’s own e-reader, the Nook, will remain unavailable in Canada. From B&N’s website: We ...
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• Introducing the $1,500 Intel e-book reader

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 800
  The Amazon Kindle costs $260. The Barnes and Noble Nook costs $260. The Sony reader is $300. Clearly there’s an established price point for what we call an e-book reader . Jumping into the e-book fray comes the Intel Reader , for fifteen hundred U.S. dollars. No WiFi, no associated book store, but it does ...
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• Kindle for PC adds flexibility, but not a whole lot more

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Kindle for PC , Amazons e-reader software for Windows, has finally been released to the throngs of Kindle users who want to read their books on the computer. The software, which was announced late last month, offers yet another way for customers to read their electronic books—this time in full color. In a world ...
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• New Intel Reader Reads Aloud To The Visually Impaired

  
  Tech-Ex — Authority: 482
  Intel on Tuesday introduced a new e-book reader, one designed for the visually impaired, which can read digital files of books aloud, as well as capture images from printed material via a 5-megapixel digital camera and similarly read the text aloud at a variety of listening speeds. Additionally, the Intel Reader, as ...
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• New Kindle app lets you download Kindle e-books directly to your PC from non-Amazon sites—not just the Kindle Store

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Earlier this morning we briefly test-drove the Kindle for PC app. Now here’s a capability we didn’t pick up at first—the ability to download Kindle files directly to your PC from non-Amazon sites, just as the K machine itself can download such files. Enjoy the updated version of our review . Alas, the ...
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• How Waterstone’s Done Killed Mah Dawg, Tooked Mah Wife And Steeled Mah Truck

  
  The Naughty Bits — Authority: 435
  The Guardian UK: How Waterstone’s Killed Booksellin g “They simply treat books as a commodity,” says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain’s sternest critics. “There’s no sentiment to it. If it’s celebrity biographies that are going to sell, then that’s what ...
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• Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download [Kindle]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
      Now you don’t need a Kindle eReader to buy and read the 360,000+ books Amazon sells in its annoyingly proprietary Kindle format. The desktop app supports color photos, multi-touch pinch-zooms , and displays notes/highlights marked on Kindles and the iPhone. As for the Mac version Continued here: Kindle ...
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• Amazon woos lit agents worried about e-books undermining p-books

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  Issues such as prices and delayed publication of e-books came up in the discussions. Did text to speech, too? See Crain’s and The Bookseller for known details. Image is from Wikipedia . Related: E-books and P: How will publishers adjust to smaller market for print books? Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook ...
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• Quick test drive: Kindle for PC looks promising—but is no match for Mobipocket in flexibility. And how about ePub?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  I’ve just test-driven a beta of Kindle for PC software (download here ). It’s very promising, but not nearly as usable for me as Mobipocket, which lets me tweak things just so . You can’t get a double-page view in KFPC, for instance, which would have been nice on my 25-inch monitor. And while you can ...
  15 hours ago

• Barnes and Noble-Nook eBook Reader (Pre-order

  
  Electronics Coupons — Authority: 133
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• FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE

  
  free programming ebooks — Authority: 159
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• ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

  
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• CASES ON MANAGING E-SERVICES

  
  free programming ebooks — Authority: 159
  Publisher: Information Science Reference Language: English ISBN: 1605660647 Paperback: 324 pages Data: Oct 2008 Format: PDF Description: After the prototypal gesture of e-commerce and e-business implementations, we are witnessing an e-services family agitate in the artefact businesses, governments and ...
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• DECISION-MAKING ON MEGA-PROJECTS: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, PLANNING AND INNOVATION

  
  free programming ebooks — Authority: 159
  Publisher: prince composer Publishing Language: English ISBN: 1845427378 Paperback: 342 pages Data: Apr 2008 Format: PDF Description: . http://www.linbai.info/business-investing/decision-making-on-mega-projects-cost-benefit-analysis-planning-and-innovation.html
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  free programming ebooks — Authority: 159
  Publisher: Springer Language: English ISBN: 3540782370 Paperback: 518 pages Data: Mar 2008 Format: PDF Description: This aggregation constitutes the good refereed post-workshop transactions of 6 internationl workshops held in Brisbane, Australia, in union with the 5th International Conference on Business Process ...
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• CORPORATE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEW EUROPE

  
  free programming ebooks — Authority: 159
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