Wiktionary
n. The publication of works in an electronic format.
Usage examples of "e-publishing".
E-publishing is at the forefront of software engineering, e-consumerism, intellectual property technologies, payment systems, conversion applications, the mobile Internet, and, basically, every important trend in network and computing and digital content.
It is no surprise, therefore, that publishers were hesitant to adopt the Internet, POD, and e-publishing technologies.
But it also provides a very good background on the whole phenomenon of electronic publishing, from a history of the Web and the first electronically distributed texts through to informed speculations on where e-publishing will take us in the future.
Libraries have pioneered digital collections (as they have other information technologies throughout history) and are still the main promoters of e-publishing.