Electronic vs Cyberbook - What's the difference?
electronic | cyberbook |
(physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
Generated by an electronic device.
Of or pertaining to the Internet.
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(science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
* 1972 , John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact?
* 2003 , Ben Bova, The Rock Rats
* 2005 , Michael A Winkelman, Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama?
As an adjective electronic
is electronic.As a noun cyberbook is
(science fiction) a digital or electronic equivalent of a book.electronic
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Derived terms
(electronic)Statistics
* ----cyberbook
English
Noun
(en noun)- The reader, the cyberbook , costs, say, $200. The wafers cost pennies. The reader, the human, is thus ever after buying a handful of wafers instead of books...
- Bookshelves ran up to the ceiling along two walls, and a third wall had shelves full of video disks and cyberbook chips...
- Probably the day is not far off when a three-dimensional cyberbook can begin to effectively chart this web of contacts...