Comments on: "Ebooks", "digital books" – is there a difference? http://www.teleread.com/library/ebooks-digital-books-is-there-a-difference/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/library/ebooks-digital-books-is-there-a-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-1130792 Steve Jordan Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:04:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=27289#comment-1130792 Sounds to me like the libraries have decided that the word "e-book" carries a commercial connotation that is distasteful to them, and they are trying to disassociate themselves from crass commercialism. For the only difference between "e-book" and "digital book" is semantics. But as there are those of us who believe "e-book" is a fad-word, destined to be dropped when electronic files are not considered so unique, I don't mind if the library wants to call e-books by another name. "Digital book" is a bit long, IMO, but keep working on it... Sounds to me like the libraries have decided that the word “e-book” carries a commercial connotation that is distasteful to them, and they are trying to disassociate themselves from crass commercialism. For the only difference between “e-book” and “digital book” is semantics.

But as there are those of us who believe “e-book” is a fad-word, destined to be dropped when electronic files are not considered so unique, I don’t mind if the library wants to call e-books by another name. “Digital book” is a bit long, IMO, but keep working on it…

]]>