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by adrow 4543 days ago
I would say that reading for free online is different from offering a free eBook as the title indicates. 'Free online HTML book' would seem like a better description to me if that's the case.
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markbates 4543 days ago
That's certainly more descriptive. I always think of those as eBooks though. In my mind I don't really see there being a difference. HTML is one, of many, eBook formats.
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adrow 4543 days ago
The main difference for me would be that I'd consider an eBook to be something I can download (epub, mobi, pdf etc...) and read on my Kobo offline. Can't see how I could easily do that with the online HTML version.

As a comparison, I found this on Skimfeed today:

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/guide-to-kde-the-other-linux-...

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allanmacgregor 4543 days ago
There is certainly a difference, with an ebook I can just download it to my tablet, phone or whatever for online reading.

> HTML is one, of many, eBook formats.

While this might be true, seems to me that you are trying to do some shady marketing; to get more traffic.

Personally because of this I won't be buying the book or reading it online.

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