The term 'ebook reader' has migrated from a stand alone ebook reading device to software developed to allow the reading of ebooks to take place in a variety of portable environments. Early ebook readers like Gemstar Rocket and Franklin were designed to allow the transport of ebooks in a convenient portable microchip infused package. Once some

According to the Joint Study of section 1201(g) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act the ebook was advanced to "facilitate the robust development and world-wide expansion of electronic commerce, communications, research, development, and education in the digital age." In essence this document points to the fact that the ebook as we are seeing