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May 15, 2015
Q. Have you read a good “p-book” lately? How about a “pbook”?
A. These are common nouns to distinguish books “printed on paper” from those “printed on electrons,” so to speak, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum magazine. The latter are termed “ebooks” or “eBooks.” The number of citations for p-books in the Nexis media database went from just a few in 2003 and 2004 to nearly 30 in 2012.
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