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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
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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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
That number includes print, e-books and audiobooks.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 9 May 2024
The original book is available in print, e-book and audio versions.
—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.
—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.
—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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