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As an intellectual object, a publication is prototypically a composition of these great length that it
takes a considerable investment of time to compose and a still significant, though not so extensive,
investment time to read. In the limited sense, a publication is a self-sufficient section or part of a
longer article, a use that reflects the simple fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on
many scrolls, and each scroll needed to be identified by the book it included. Therefore, for
instance, each component of Aristotles Physics is referred to as a book. In the unrestricted sense,
a publication is the compositional whole of that these sections, whether called chapters or books or
parts, are parts.

The academic material in a physical book need not be a composition, nor even be called a book.
Novels can consist only of drawings, engravings, or photographs, or such matters as crossword
puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or may contain an abstract
group of outlines as service for ongoing entrances, e.g., an account book, an appointment book, an
autograph book, a laptop, a diary, or a sketchbook. Some physical publications are made out of
pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical items, like a scrapbook or photograph
album. Books could be distributed in digital form as e-books along with other formats.

Although in normal academic parlance that a monograph is understood to be a professional
academic work, instead of a reference work on a single scholarly topic, in library and information
science monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in one volume
(book) or a finite number of volumes (even a publication like Prousts seven-volume In Search of
Lost Time), in contrast to sequential books like a magazine, journal, or newspaper. A shop where
books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Novels are also sold elsewhere. Google
has estimated that as of 2010, roughly 130,000,000 different titles had been published. In some
wealthier nations, the sale of published books has diminished due to the increased use of e-books.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of cheap handheld computing devices, the chance to
share texts through digital means became an attractive option for media publishers. Thus, the"e-
book" was made. The expression e-book is a contraction of"electronic book"; it pertains to some
book-length publication in electronic form. An e-book is usually made accessible through the
internet, but also on CD-ROM along with other forms. E-Books may be read either using a
computing device with an LED screen like a traditional computer, a smartphone or a tablet
computer; or by way of a mobile e-ink display device called an e-book reader, such as the Sony
Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. E-book readers try to mimic
the experience of reading a print book by using this technology, because the screens onto e-book
readers are not as reflective.

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