An e-text (from "
electronic text"; sometimes written as etext) is, generally, any
text-based information that is available in a digitally encoded human-readable format and read by electronic means, but more specifically it refers to files in the
ASCII character encoding. E-text has the broad meaning of something electronic that represents words, a
binary (or
digital) version of a published work of text. Indeed, there are ASCII textbooks available. These are now referred to as, and the term is often used synonymously, an
ebook.The term e-text is used for the more limited case of data in ASCII text format, while the more general e-book can be in a specialized (and, at times,
proprietary) file format. An ebook is commonly bundled by a
publisher for distribution (as an ebook, an
ezine, or an
internet newspaper), whereas e-text is distributed in ASCII (or
plain text). Metadata relating to the text is sometimes included with e-text (though it appears more frequently with ebooks).
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