Dear All
As Caren says, publishers and aggregators use different formats. At RSC we currently use eBook in our marketing material. What you can use as a good rule of thumb, which is what was used when I worked at British Standards Institution, is when a word becomes accepted in the dictionary without the hyphen then change it.
For example, when I did a search on the Oxford Dictionary, e-book is listed. I don't have a subscription to this service so I can't see if it shows alternatives but I did search for ebook.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/e-book
However the Cambridge Dictionary does recognise ebook without the hyphen:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english/ebook?q=ebook
As a local Cambridge girl born and bred, I may stick with the Cambridge Dictionary!
I also looked on here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ebook
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ebook
Sorry to add to the confusion. I guess the more a term is used without the hyphen, the more likely it is to become accepted - email and e-mail for example.
Kind regards
Louise
Louise Peck BSc LM DipM MCIM, Library Marketing Specialist
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House,
Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247
www.rsc.org/publishing
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Sent: 29 September 2011 09:08
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Thanks for all your comments.
Ally, I take your point about dropping the hyphen. That was why I wondered if it was better to go with eBook as I think it highlights the word more as an entity and also follows the iPhone, iPad model.
I also agree that the hyphen is likely to be dropped in the future for the very reason you gave Caren about Twitter and it being just simpler and neater looking.
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Sent: 28 September 2011 17:45
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That's exactly what I do (for 'Serials') at the moment, Caren! Still
clinging onto the hyphen for the time being. I suppose 'eresources' is a
little odd without it. Hard not to read it as air sources or ear sources ...
and I can't help reading email as French for enamel even though it doesn't
have the accent! I suppose the hyphen helps prevent a misreading and it's
neater just to use it for everything. For now anyway ... always easier if
you don't have to think too much.
Ally
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Sent: 28 September 2011 17:24
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I have grappled with this for JISC Collections projects and reports. I once
spent some time looking at university libraries to see if there was a more
common use and gave up as clearly there were multiple versions within the
catalogue or web pages on each library site.
I ended up using
e-books if mid-sentence and E-books for the start of sentences in the
Observatory project reports and this is also in the JISC Collections style
guide.
Publishers all use different forms, so much like the e-books market itself,
it's all a bit random :)
However I am now starting to prefer ebooks as it is easier on twitter to
drop the dash.
Not much help I suspect!
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Sent: 28 September 2011 16:10
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I don't think there is a standard way but would also be interested to know!
I think 'ebook' is least common, though we often get sent either 'eBook' or
'e-book' when authors submit articles to 'Serials'. We decided some time
ago that our house style would be 'e-book' but don't know that there is
really an accepted right or wrong format/spelling yet?
Ally Souster
(Publications Associate, UKSG)
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] eBook or e-book?
Does anyone happen to know or where I would find out if there is a standard
format for displaying the term 'ebook'? I've used 3 different versions just
in this email and although it's a bit trivial we'd like to know so that we
can be consistent.
Thanks.
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