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E-Books

Sites with information about electronic books, including e-book guides, news reports on e-book business and technology, and pages about electronic book readers. Also includes gateways to the related ODP categories for e-book titles, stores, and publishers. Electronic books are a communications medium, just like regular books, or CD-ROMS, are communications mediums. Types of electronic books include: electronic texts, or e-texts; and electronic reading devices.

IMPORTANT: This area is for free information only. E-books for sale should be suggested to Shopping/Publications/Digital only.

Please suggest sites about electronic book technology. If the site does not contain general information about electronic books, please suggest it to a suitable subcategory or related category.

This is NOT the appropriate category to submit book reviews, books about computers, online texts, marketing sites, advertising, how to make money with e-books, or anything not related to the topic of e-books. Sites selling e-books are listed in the linked Shopping category.

Compilers

Software tools for creating electronic books.

Conferences

Academic and commercial conferences, meetings, trade shows, workshops, and associated events with a major focus on electronic books.

Guides

Guiding information about electronic books.

News and Media

Publications from online news services, newspapers, books, magazines, e-zines, and journals with electronic books as a principal topic.

Readers

Hardware devices that display e-book material (text and images) for reading.

Note: Suggestions to this category must be sites that carry an actual hardware device designed to allow you to read e-books or sites with commentary or information about such. If the reader is software based, please submit it to the appropriate sub-category (i.e. /Computers/E-Books/Readers/Software).

Titles

Electronic book titles (writing that can be downloaded or transferred by some other means and read offline by an e-book reader), with links to related ODP categories (please refer to these categories for listings and submissions on their respective topics):

Electronic Text Archives are printed literary texts available on the Internet.
Online Reading and Online Writing are for sites containing works that exist and are accessible exclusively online.
Digital Library Collections provide entrances into the collections and user services of digital, nonphysical, libraries.
E-Books for Sale are listed in the related Shopping category.