Re: eBook or eText [Commentary]
- From: Glenn Hauman <glenn.hauman@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: eBook or eText [Commentary]
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:13:43 -0400
As long as you don't call it "digital text", I'm a happy man. I've spent
far too much time explaining to publishing people who should really
have known better that text is inherently digital.
At 11:55 AM -0400 10/20/01, Michael Hart wrote:
>This is the thought process several
>of us went through when working out
>these varius naming techniques. . .
>
>Since a "book" is a physical object,
>then an "eBook" is a physical object.
>
>Since "text" is what is *in* a book,
>then "eText" is what is *in* an "eBook."
>
>You can certainly buy a blank "book"
>and nearly any large bookstore. . .
>it's just blank pages waiting to be
>filled up whatever. . .just as you
>can buy blank sheets of paper in so
>many different forms. . . .
>
>You can't really buy blank "text,"
>unless you consider ye olde metal
>blocks and slabs to be such. . .
>and I certainly have collected my
>share of such things, but they are
>just physical letters. . backwards,
>in most cases. . .of course.
>
>More later, if this sparks discussion.
Best-- Glenn Hauman, BiblioBytes
http://www.bb.com/