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Originally Posted by radius
As far as e-reader versus ereader goes, e-reader should never have become au courant as the name of electronic reading devices in the first place if eReader had been on the ball and protected their trademark vigilantly. And if the word e-reader came first, then they shouldn't have been granted the trademark.
Either way, even Kobo refers to their devices as eReaders (see https://us.kobobooks.com/) so I certainly have no trouble calling them that. Hyphens tend to disappear over the long run in any case (does anybody still type e-mail instead of email?)
Staples seems to use the variants interchangably too ( https://www.staples.ca/en/Tablets-eR...5_2-CA_1_20001) as do other storefronts I visited... |
Yeah, I really don't understand how the e-reader/eReader/ereader segment of this thread came up in the first place. Does it really matter? We are individuals not businesses. If I say while xeroxing some pages I read my eReader and drank a coke, most users would understand that my photocopier wasn't necessarily a Xerox, my book format wasn't necessarily .pdb and that coke wasn't necessarily a Coca-Cola (at least not in Texas or California where 'coke' is generic for 'soft drink').