Re: origin of "ebook"

It seems likely that the term "email" would have had to be in common
use before someone thought of the similar term "ebook". The late 1980s
sounds about right, as that's the time email's audience first began to
broaden out, what with BBSes on one side and college access to the
Internet on the other.

On 4/19/13, Roy Mize <[email protected]> wrote:
>>To have the subject researched properly, I suggest that someone contact
> John Hollar, CEO of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
> California.
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> The museum is the premier information technology and computer history
> museum in the world.   http://www.computerhistory.org
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> "Hollar previously was President of Penguin Television Ltd and
> Pearson Broadband Ltd in London as a senior executive of Pearson plc,
> the FTSE 100 global media and education company.  Before that he
> served as Executive Vice President of the Public Broadcasting Service
> (PBS)"
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> If he can't find out, no one can.
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> Roy Mize
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> [email protected]
> Mountain View, CA
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> Notes:
> John:  I sent previous emails on the subject to Dag, Kirsten,and Chris.
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>>When I think of "ebook" I think of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
>>Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, which was a radio series back in 1978,
>>before it became a printed book, a TV series, and a movie.
>>
>>The character Ford Prefect is writing a guidebook with that title.
>>And the book is in electronic form. I don't know if the word "ebook"
>>appears. But the concept certainly does.
>>
>>Richard
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:
>><mailto:ebook-community%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]
>>[mailto:<mailto:ebook-community%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]]
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>>On Behalf Of Christopher R. Maden
>>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:01 PM
>>To:
>> <mailto:ebook-community%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [ebook-community] origin of "ebook"
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>>On 04/18/2013 01:21 PM, I wrote:
>>>  That same article says that "ebook" was a well-established term by
>>>  1985, but does not say when the contraction happened.
>>
>>I misread the Wikipedia article; that reference was to the term
>>"electronic book."
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>>>  I've asked a friend who is a science editor at a major dictionary to
>>>  research it.
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>>Their earliest citation seems to be the same as the OED:
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>>American Libraries
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>>May 1, 1988
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>>Public librarians take cool view of future; leadership, not
>>technology, may be the issue.
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>>BYLINE: Hennem, Thomas J., Jr.
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>>SECTION: Pg. p390(3) Vol. V19 No. N5 ISSN: 0002-9769
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>>"* The E-book, a small, hand-held, flat recording device able to
>>replay text as a portable cassette player replays sound. Librarians
>>who argued that mass storage devices could never replace the book
>>may be wrong-you can cuddle up with the E-book."
>>
>>This is clearly referring to what most of us would now call an
>>e-book reader, but is consistent with some earlier uses (like the
>>Rocket eBook).
>>
>>So, let's help the lexicographers: what is the earliest published
>>use of "ebook" or "e-book" you can find? Internet sources count, as
>>long as the dating is reliable (e.g., the Internet Archive or
>>USENET).
>>
>>~Chris
>>--
>>Chris Maden, text nerd <URL:
>><http://crism.maden.org/>http://crism.maden.org/ >
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