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View Poll Results: What is the right short form of 'electronic book'? | |||
eBook | 37 | 21.14% | |
ebook | 90 | 51.43% | |
e-book | 27 | 15.43% | |
none of them | 3 | 1.71% | |
The blue one next to the fish | 18 | 10.29% | |
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01-03-2013, 07:51 PM | #31 |
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You still use eBook (with the lowercase e) if you are to start a sentence using it.
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01-03-2013, 08:11 PM | #32 |
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01-03-2013, 08:12 PM | #33 |
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Since german publishing houses try to charge 90% of the price of the printed book for the manuscript, I prefer to call it manuscript and not ebook anymore.
You can't print it, you can't save your annontations, you don't own it, it gets destroyed and worthless after you're dead, you can't give it to your friends - so it's not a book. Actually it's quite the opposite of a book. |
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01-04-2013, 01:31 AM | #35 |
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Where the word is not capitalised, I would always now use ebook. (My preferred choice of e.book never did catch on, although it's clearly the 'correct' form, as the e is an abbreviation for electronic.) |
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01-04-2013, 07:14 AM | #37 | |
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I vote for this, kill em all, let the gawds sort em out. (and by 'em' I mean electrical m. ) |
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01-04-2013, 05:33 PM | #38 |
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We care because we are young gentlemen that care about each other and the way language affects our way of thinking..
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Most of the people who actually deal with selling/making eBooks use the word eBook, not e-book. So every Oxford dictionary sold since e-book was added has a mistake in it. |
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Language changes and now allows eBook and pBook.
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01-04-2013, 11:17 PM | #42 |
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The correct form is, of course, "e-book". As people are lazy, it will soon enough become ebook.
eBook seems to be a bastardization that has evolved because people see that "ebook" just doesn't look right. It's "ehbook" for crying out loud. |
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The correct form has no dash. I gave plenty of example of eBook being used in a professional capacity. |
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01-04-2013, 11:22 PM | #44 | |
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Furthermore, having worked around marketing types a fair bit, I wouldn't let them be the final arbiters. They have, at best, a loose grasp on language, reality, and the truth. They love exclamation marks and arbitrary capitalization, though. |
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