Talk:Webbook

Background
This article was created based on evidence of the use of the term "webbook" to describe a generic class of laptop computers similar to netbooks. It is essentially synonymous with the term, except that the trademark issues (the primary focus of this article) are different. Although the temptation would be to merge and redirect this article, please resist the urge to do so at least for the next few months while USPTO get around to assessing the application from an apparent trademark troll. The existence of various trademarks for the term both senses is evidence of its existence (if not its popularity). -- samj in out 05:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Webbook as handbook on the web
The Webbook of African Language Resources was in its very limited run original print versions the Handbook.... So in this case at least (not sure about the NIST weblication), "webbook" was specifically a "handbook" (a reference work) accessible on the web, as opposed to in physical form. Moreover, while in the content structure of this Webbook was basically the same as the print versions, it was adapted specifically for the web, and not as a web-accessible version of the printed pages. Hence in this case, not really the same as what we usually think of as an e-book.--A12n (talk) 12:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Blank and redirect
This page was blanked and redirected. This article seemed to serve as a sort of disambiguation page between netbooks, online handbooks, and The Webbook Company. Of these, a user is almost certainly looking for information on netbooks, as "webbook" was sometimes used as a synonym for those in the era netbooks were popular and the word "webbook" itself never caught on as a category of computer of its own.

The history of The Webbook Company is already present at History of tablet computers, and this page didn't provide substantially more information than that short blurb, so I see no reason to keep this page around for that.

It also seems that this page was also previously nominated for deletion for very similar reasons, before being later re-instated about a year later out of hope that webbooks were a growing industry trend.

InvisibleUp (talk) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)