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Originally Posted by taosaur
e-books
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e-books is not a word. A word with a hyphen has two separate words joined together by the hyphen to make one word. e is not a word on its own so it doesn't work. Take hard-won (for example), you have both hard & won that make up hard-won. Both are separate words. e is not a word so e-books is not valid.
If anything, the word that finally wins the battle is going to either be eBooks or ebooks. But e-books being invalid cannot be the word.