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An e-book is a shorter term for a digital version of a book that lives inside your iPhone or any electronic device you want to read a book on. They are made instead of regular books with print on paper; e-books are made with glowing pixels on the screen that turn into text. | An e-book is a shorter term for a digital version of a book that lives inside your iPhone or any electronic device you want to read a book on. They are made instead of regular books with print on paper; e-books are made with glowing pixels on the screen that turn into text. Scholarly definitions describe it as and normal paper books equivalent to in a digital version. <ref name=":0">Armstrong, et al. ''“E-books – an overview.”'' ''ScienceDirect Topics'', 2002. ScienceDirect. </ref> E-books can be made by re-using books that have already been created over hundreds of years and be translated ito the ebook version or be made primary on the ebook itself and vice versa. E-books replicate many features of a regular book like text, pages, and a table of contents they must be used on a digital form to be considered e-books. | ||
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Armstrong, et al. ''“E-books – an overview.”'' ''ScienceDirect Topics'', 2002. ScienceDirect.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Zhang, Tao, Xi Niu, and Marlen Promann. ''“Assessing the User Experience of E-Books in Academic Libraries.”'' ''College & Research Libraries'', vol. 78, no. 3, 2017.<ref>Zhang, Tao, Xi Niu, and Marlen Promann. ''“Assessing the User Experience of E-Books in Academic Libraries.”'' ''College & Research Libraries'', vol. 78, no. 3, 2017. </ref> | |||
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E-book
An e-book is a shorter term for a digital version of a book that lives inside your iPhone or any electronic device you want to read a book on. They are made instead of regular books with print on paper; e-books are made with glowing pixels on the screen that turn into text. Scholarly definitions describe it as and normal paper books equivalent to in a digital version. [1] E-books can be made by re-using books that have already been created over hundreds of years and be translated ito the ebook version or be made primary on the ebook itself and vice versa. E-books replicate many features of a regular book like text, pages, and a table of contents they must be used on a digital form to be considered e-books.
Armstrong, et al. “E-books – an overview.” ScienceDirect Topics, 2002. ScienceDirect.[1]
Zhang, Tao, Xi Niu, and Marlen Promann. “Assessing the User Experience of E-Books in Academic Libraries.” College & Research Libraries, vol. 78, no. 3, 2017.[2]
