App is the shorthand name for an application and usually used in the context of mobile applications. They are standalone applications, usually platform specific, that run on the mobile operating system of the device. These applications can range anywhere from games to notetaking applications. Talking in the context of ebooks, an ebook app is usually something that would be able to read a specific book or a number of specific books defined by the app [...]

I thought an ebook would be relatively easy to define, it’s a word in common usage and people use the word all the time, but do they know what it really means? As defined by the Oxford Dictionary an ebook is: an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device. This may be very all well and good, an electronic version of a book [...]