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This is an informational site for Readers,
as well as writers of E-book, Blogs and Blooks. If you have
something you would like to contribute contact
Bim
Willow
The printing
press changed the world forever.
The internet is doing the same. Back then
books were rare and everything hand written. Only the elite
and privileged could read or access books. These were called
the Dark Ages. With the Internet the spread of information
is now world-wide and instant. With a computer anyone can be
a author, an artist, business owner. The computer makes it
easier to create and the internet makes it easier to market.
E-book
An e-book (also: eBook,
ebook) is an
electronic (or
digital) version of a
book. The term is used ambiguously both
to refer to either an individual
work in a digital format, or a hardware
device used to read books in digital format.
Some users deprecate the second meaning in
favor of the more precise "e-book
device". However the term interplay
works out colloquially in the long run,
e-books are an emerging and rapidly changing
technology, and since at least 2004 have
included newer experimental
online magazines, pioneered in part by
Baen's Books in their release of the
first
Grantville Gazette.
The term e-text is often used
synonymously with the term e-book,
and is also used for the more limited case
of data in ASCII text format excluding books
in
proprietary file formats. An exception
to this rule is the academic e-text, which
commonly includes components such as
facsimile images, apparatus criticus, and
scholarly commentary on the work from one or
more editors specially qualified to edit the
author or work in question.
An e-book is commonly
bundled by a
publisher for distribution (as an
e-book, an
ezine, or an Internet newspaper),
whereas e-text is distributed in plain text,
or in the case of academic works, in the
form of discrete media such as compact
discs.
Metadata relating to the text are
sometimes included with etext (though it
appears more frequently with e-book).
Metadata commonly include details about
author, title, publisher, and
copyright date; less common are details
regarding language, genre, relevant
copyright conventions, etc.
Blogs
Weblogs (Blogs)
A weblog, which is usually
shortened to blog, is a type of website
where entries are made (such as in a journal
or diary), displayed in a reverse
chronological order.
Blogs often provide
commentary or news on a particular subject,
such as food, politics, or local news; some
function as more personal online diaries. A
typical blog combines text, images, and
links to other blogs, web pages, and other
media related to its topic. Most blogs are
primarily textual although many focus on
photograph (photoblog), videos (vlog), or
audio (podcasting).
The word blog can
also be used as a verb, meaning
to maintain or add content to
a blog.
Types of blogs
There are various types of
blogs, and each differs in the way content
is delivered or written.
For more information
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Blooks
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
One definition of blook
is a
book
serialized on a
blog site. Chapters are published one by
one as blog posts, and readers can then
subscribe to a blook with an
RSS feed,
tag it, comment on it, etc. This type of
blook was popularized by
Tom Evslin in September
2005, with the launch of
hackoff.com, a murder mystery set in the
dot-com bubble.
Blooks can include
online material. For example, hackoff.com
includes both a wiki and a faux company
website for the fictional company described
in the book.
Another definition of
blook is a printed book whose content was
originally posted on a blog.
Tony Pierce published a blook of this
type in 2002 which was actually named
Blook after
Jeff Jarvis of
BuzzMachine invented the term
here.
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