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electronic book, n.
Brit. |ˌɛlɛkˌtrɒnɪk ˈbʊk|, |ˌɛlɪkˌtrɒnɪk ˈbʊk|, |ˌɪlɛkˌtrɒnɪk ˈbʊk|, |ˌiːlɛkˌtrɒnɪk ˈbʊk|, U.S. |iːˌlɛkˌtrɑnɪk ˈbʊk|[see also electronic adj.]
[‹ electronic adj. + book n.]
1. An electronic record of offers to buy or sell a stock on a stock exchange.
1970N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 63/7 The New York Stock Exchange will initiate today a live pilot test of the Specialist Electronic Book, a computerized display device to store investors' buy and sell orders... ‘The new electronic book is an essential link to the ‘locked-in’ trade of the future.’ 1983Securities Week (Nexis) 12 Sept. 2 Because the exchange owns the stocks and not the specialist, the electronic book will have to be considered a franchise. 1988Jrnl. Business 61 294 With many specialists already using an electronic ‘book’, it is feasible to link the books across stocks. 1995Jrnl. Finance 50 1662 The electronic book on the NYSE contains only about 30 percent of the executed trading volume.
2. = e-book n.
1978Harvard Business Rev. Jan.–Feb. 14 They had access to a variety of new services:..computer-assisted instruction,..electronic books, magazines, and newspapers. 1979D. Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to Galaxy v. 44 The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a sort of electronic book. 1982Economist (Nexis) 11 Sept. 85 Handheld electronic ‘books’ are no longer science fiction. 1990Lit. & Ling. Computing 5 127/2 The host system Guide provides an interface to the resulting electronic book that readers without computing experience greet with enthusiasm. 1992Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 23 Feb. 11/4 The decades-old dream of small, affordable electronic books is taking on the ring of reality. 2000Pop. Sci. Dec. 70/3 (caption) The RCA REB1100 eBook, the first paperback-size electronic book with a built-in modem, stores 20 novels on its internal 8MB of memory. |