This discussion of ebooks has come up within the non-profit
organization we run. Our vice-president is very digitally oriented,
and wants to scan our entire library into the cloud and trash the
dead-tree books (a non-trivial task, considering the size of our
library).
A discussion recently arose about the proper way to give a citation to
an e-book. Conventional citations have author, title, publisher, date,
et al, and these should translate into the electronic form direcly.
Location could even be provided with a URI. But how would one indicate
a page number when there aren't any?
If anyone has seen a standard for citations to e-books, I would really
appreciate hearing of it.
Obviously, such scholarly concerns only concern scholars, and have no
meaning for popular fiction, but for those of us in academia, it is
probably the largest remaining objection to electronic media.
Cheers,
Bruce
