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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
I've actually had to look this up in the Chicago Manual of Style. E-mail, E-reader, E-publishing. And yes, the E is always capitalized.
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Wait for the next edition. Common usage will almost always first drop the hyphen and then, over time, the adjectival part of the compound word will tend to disappear - unless it is helpful in maintaining distinctions, as in 'laptop' and 'desktop', which are subject to the opposite form of contraction.
When I ask Mrs Argel if she knows where the 'paper' is she knows I mean the newspaper. If I say I am launching a new 'site' to advertise my services, people know I mean a website. I say 'phone', rather than telephone, my sound system has 'speakers' and I often carry a 'player'.
Given the sad lack of enthusiasm for something stylish like 'liseuse' the name will inevitably end up as 'reader'. No E, no hyphen, just 'reader'.
