typically defined as books sold in electronic format - typically in a closed binary form

• alternative: free work like [Project Gutenberg] and Brewster Kahle's various projects. Often referred to as [EText]-s

  • 50 sources

see Information Ecosystem Roadmap

online "markets"

• related: Print On Demand, LuLu, AmaZon

• http://www.webook.com/faq

a special case has been those designed for dedicated hardware (e.g. KindLe)

Hyper Card was an early tool for authoring these

crosses over with Hyper Text books like those made with Story Space

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/E-Books/

http://www.whatdoyaknow.com/what_eBook.htm

http://www.writinginstructor.com/essays/cesarini/cesarini1.html

[Daniel Jordi] just goes ahead and scans and [OCRs] the books he buys/likes.

Some are in the Public Domain outside the US because the author died more than 50 years ago.

Barnes And Noble stopped selling them in 2003 after launching that store in 2000.

Will Text Book-s go this direction?

Does Wiki Pedia count?

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