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e-book

American  
[ee-book] / ˈiˌbʊk /
Or ebook,

noun

e-books plural
  1. a book in digital form.

  2. e-reader.


e-book British  

noun

  1. a book in electronic form

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to book (hospital appointments, airline tickets, etc) through the internet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of e-book

1980–85; e- 2 (electronic) + book

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With no major investments planned in near term, the Thailand e-book distributor is expected to sustain a 75% payout ratio, implying dividend yields of 6% in 2025, 7% in 2026, and 7% in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Twenty-five years after publication, King’s “On Writing” remains so popular that, as of this writing, 125 people are in line to borrow the e-book from the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

You can't ask a customer, “Stop buying books on Amazon,” with an asterisk: “Except when you need to buy an e-book, in which case, you're out of luck.”

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

Michigan receives $10 from the sale of each tablet and 10 percent of all e-book, music, game, and movie sales from its contract with JPay.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2024

The illustrations of the sections in this e-book are of uniform size, but the correct size of each would be somewhere between the image on the page and the enlargement.

From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William

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