Word of the Week

The word of the week is e-book.
 

The electronic book or e-book is about to make a breakthrough in Finland too. The Finnish Book Publishers Association has opened a website with information about reading devices and file formats. The site includes a vocabulary which determines the difference between an e-book and an online book. The vocabulary states that the difference between an e-book and an online book is whether the book will be downloaded or not. An online book cannot be downloaded, but an e-book is downloaded and saved on a reading device or a computer. I suspect that the difference is greater to the publisher than to the reader, since it is easier to build traditional business activity around an e-book that has to be downloaded on a separate reading device. On the other hand, it is difficult for a web person to understand why – next to the laptop and the smartphone – the briefcase has to be made heavier still with a separate reading device.

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