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Old 12-06-2009, 12:19 PM   #39
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Hi Jon,

thanks for being upfront. A lesson learnt there I think. "Readers" is a lot shorter to write then "dedicated devices/readers" as Steve mentioned so I think we shall start writing it like that from now on. Thanks Steve for the backing too.

Jon, how do you prefer to write eBooks? There are so many different ways we have seen: 'e-books', 'ebooks', e books'.

We prefer eBooks (hence the reason for writing eReaders. It just made sense at the time).
I prefer to call the books eBooks and I refer to the devices as readers unless they are Sony and then they are Readers. And as for paper books, I call them pBooks unless I am trying to refer specifically to a specific pBook format.

I don't like it when brands are used as a generic for whatever it is aka eReader to mean dedicated reader when eReader is not that.
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