Electronic books
Tony Cawkell
(Cawkell Information Technology Services Ltd. PO Box 565, Iver, Bucks, SL0 0QZ)
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Abstract
Books include novels, dictionaries, telephone books, textbooks, anthologies, instruction manuals, proceedings of meetings and directories. The phrase “electronic books” has been applied to some types of CD‐ROM systems, palm‐top CD players, on‐demand text, electronic document systems of various kinds ± in fact to almost any kind of computer‐based text system that needs hyping up for marketing purposes. The future prospects for the electronic book are examined in this article.
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Citation
Cawkell, T. (1999), "Electronic books", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 51 No. 2, pp. 54-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006962
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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