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eBook

What it is

A book published in electronic form.

How to cite it

Cited as a book under r 6.1. Where it exists only as an eBook, r 6.1.9(b) adds "eBook ed" and drops the place of publication. An eBook that also exists in hardcopy is cited as the hardcopy.

Example citation

Andrew Butler The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary (2nd ed, eBook ed, LexisNexis, 2015) at 212.

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