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Ebook

An ebook (short for "electronic book"), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed…

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Ebook

Nodes144
Edges143
Triples82
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013889
Components1

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Ebook

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related to Early hardware implementations · 26
Ebook → Apparatus, Army Research Institute, Behavioral, December, Dedicated, Defense, Department, Detailed, Dynabook, Four, FY, Harkins, In, John, Maintenance, Morriss, One, PARC, PEAM, Peter Kincaid
related to E-book formats · 24
Ebook → Adobe, Allen Renear, As, Brown, Countless, CSS, Different, Due, Elli Mylonas, EPUB, Focused, Google Books, In, Meanwhile, Open, PDF, Several, Steven DeRose, TEI, Text Encoding Initiative
related to Advantages · 11
Ebook → Additionally, Amazon, Depending, E-books, For, In, Many, Moreover, Project Gutenberg, United States, While
related to United States · 4
Ebook → According, American Publishers, Association, Publishers
related to Terminology · 3
Ebook → Books, E-books, Ebooks

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e-books e-book books book electronic reading e-reader digital publishers also text device may devices public readers many read formats titles

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a maximum priceinstance ofalthough the library can set purchasing conditions0.80text
purchasing caps so that the dedicated funds are spent according to the library's budgetinstance ofalthough the library can set purchasing conditions0.80text
O'Reilly Mediainstance ofSmaller e-book publishers0.80text
Carina Pressinstance ofSmaller e-book publishers0.80text
Baen Books had already forgone DRM previouslyinstance ofSmaller e-book publishers0.80text
information technology where topics can change quickly in the months that it takes to write a typical bookinstance ofThis is useful in fields0.80text
Project Gutenberginstance ofnumerous e-books are available online free of charge on sites0.80text
the textureinstance ofincluding aspects0.80text
smellinstance ofincluding aspects0.80text
weightinstance ofincluding aspects0.80text
appearance on the shelfinstance ofincluding aspects0.80text
those operated by Alibaba Group facilitate the retailinstance ofmajor e-commerce ecosystems0.80text

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