How to Use e-book in a Sentence

e-book

noun
  • No e-book was available, and a query to the publisher went nowhere.
    David Streitfeld, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The e-books will be available to readers via the Palace e-reader app.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • That’s more than enough space to store thousands of e-book downloads.
    Tim Chan, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • That’s more than enough space to store thousands of e-book downloads.
    Tim Chan, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This jade roller and gua sha set comes with an e-book to help teach you how to use the tools properly.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 11 Mar. 2023
  • His four e-books about travel are available at Amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and www.smashwords.com/author/robertjenkins.
    Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Part of that journey usually involves weight loss, and this e-book can show you the way.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In ye olden days of 2012, e-books were often cheaper than hard copies.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • One shop even sells an e-book guide on how to create X-rated AI content.
    Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The Woman in Me will be available as a hardcover, e-book and audio book.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Like many libraries, West Haven has been grappling with the soaring costs of e-books and audiobooks.
    Susan Haigh, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • At the center of the case between book publishers and the Internet Archive is the way e-books are lent out to libraries.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Amazon by itself is responsible for 40% of all print books and 80% of all e-books sold in the United States.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That’s why the company website encourages you to sit in the coffee shop, use its Wi-Fi and read e-books free on your Nook.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • An e-book and audio book read by Ina herself will also be available.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The book was a national bestseller, with over 1.1 million copies sold in its first week across print, pre-sales, e-books and audiobooks.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Now, prices of e-books (and audiobooks) are often set by book publishers.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • To help walk his fans through the aisles (and their meal prep), Coleman recently released a $10 e-book that includes three weeks of grocery lists and recipes that align with his method.
    Karla Walsh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike physical books, which tend to accumulate with age, e-books tend to skew younger.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • While first editions of famous books like The Great Gatsby can sell for hundreds—or sometimes thousands—of dollars, the same can’t be said for the first releases of e-books.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Additionally, the purchase comes with a free e-book about potty training that can be used to help assist with the process for both parents and kids alike.
    Casey Clark, Parents, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This model has 64GB of memory for photos, downloading shows, and e-books.
    Ellen McAlpine, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2023
  • The application's last request is for online e-books relating to cookbooks and recipe books.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Once readily available as an e-book, that book has since disappeared, barring a used hard copy that’s selling for $1,950 on the internet.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 May 2023
  • Two years later, the Justice Department sued Apple and book publishers for illegally fixing the price of e-books sold on the iPad.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Last year’s 16 new stores were the same number that Barnes & Noble opened in the previous 10 years when e-commerce and e-books were supposed to make physical bookstores obsolete.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • For the first time, Apple is now required by law to let apps point you to their websites to buy a digital news subscription, an e-book or another digital purchase.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Patrons are stuck on long waiting lists for audio and e-books, and digital offerings are limited.
    Susan Haigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The Justice Department last sued Apple in 2012, accusing the company of colluding with book publishers to fix e-book prices.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, Gen Z readers frequent libraries and generally prefer physical books to e-books.
    Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 15 June 2023

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