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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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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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!
Caren Milloy
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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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