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Originally Posted by speedlever
Thank you for that clarification Dennis.
Then the extra value of being able to search an ebook is directly related to the EBR itself and is not a function of the ebook.
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Well, directly related to the viewer
software.
But yes, the search function is in software in the viewer. I'm trying to think of an ebook
format that
wouldn't let you search it, and failing.
It does get fuzzy at one point. For things like the iPhone, there's currently a question of what the best way is to package ebooks. One group favors the book as an app, so when you buy an ebook, you get a package bundling the viewer software and the actual book. The other approach is that the viewer software is something you get and install once, and then you buy and load books to be read with it.
In the "ebook as app" model, you
could say the search function was part of the book.
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Dennis