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: a book composed in or converted to digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device
Examples of e-book in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Experts in Miami suggest taking these five steps now
▪ Don’t use blue light devices at bedtime: During the hour before bed, don’t watch TV, scroll through social media on your phone, read an e-book on your tablet or use other devices that emit blue light.
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
The communal experience of browsing is something that gives a sense of community, beyond what an e-book can bring.
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Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2024
Since then, genres have come and gone; e-books rose, fell, and then started rising again; and social media sites like TikTok upended the way many people discover books.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 30 May 2024
Listen to music, podcasts, and e-books for up to 30 hours on a full charge, plus block out surrounding noise with the wireless earbuds’ noise cancellation feature.
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Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
That number includes print, e-books and audiobooks.
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Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 9 May 2024
The original book is available in print, e-book and audio versions.
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Jamie Gold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
The segment includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as digital video, audiobook, digital music, e-book and other non-AWS subscription services.
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Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Apr. 2024
Judith Jones published him handsomely, with infinite attention to covers, type, paper length, paper finish—the things that seem secondary to the purely literary, or e-book, era, but that count significantly to an author’s spirit or surviving soul.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1988, in the meaning defined above
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“E-book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e-book. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
e-book
nounˈē-ˌbu̇k
: a book composed in or converted to a digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device
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