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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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04-05-2004, 01:43 PM | #1 |
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eBook, ebook, or e-book?
Ok guys, what do you think is a correct way of writing of the short form of electronic book? Is there any real difference that matters between eBook, ebook, and e-book? And if not, which one of them should be preferred?
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04-06-2004, 08:02 AM | #2 |
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Well, first it was "e-mail", but it didn't take long to become "email". Similarly, I would guess that "e-book" and "eBook" will shortly devolve into the simplest form, "ebook". Outside of marketing literature, no one uses capitals in the middle of a word, and the "e-" thing is very late-90's...
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04-06-2004, 07:11 PM | #3 |
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True, we lazy typists will all end up typing ebook as it requires the least work...
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04-07-2004, 01:29 PM | #4 |
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Last year, Oxford has added the word "e-book" in the Oxford dictionaries.
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04-07-2004, 01:45 PM | #5 | |
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04-07-2004, 03:05 PM | #6 | |
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Webster's Collegiate gives "e-book" and "e-mail". Interestingly if in lookup you type "email" or "ebook" you get those listings too. Philippe Radley
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04-08-2004, 11:17 AM | #7 | |
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v. mail or send using email ORIGIN: abbrev. of electronic mail Don't ask me why they choose "email" and "e-book" |
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09-30-2004, 08:21 AM | #8 |
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hoho i just made e-book equal lead :P
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12-27-2012, 10:04 PM | #9 |
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The correct way is: iEBook. Just joking. But looks good.
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12-27-2012, 10:17 PM | #10 |
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12-28-2012, 12:00 AM | #11 |
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12-28-2012, 01:50 AM | #12 |
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It's eBook but doesn't matter you call write it eBook or ebook. We pronounce it e and book.
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12-28-2012, 06:24 AM | #13 |
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12-28-2012, 11:05 AM | #14 |
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Is that a record? A little over 8 years and 3 months!
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12-28-2012, 05:05 PM | #15 |
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