  We consider pure quantum states of N qubits and study the genuine N-qubit
entanglement that is shared among all the N qubits. We introduce an
information-theoretic measure of genuine N-qubit entanglement based on
bipartite partitions. When N is an even number, this measure is presented in a
simple formula, which depends only on the purities of the partially reduced
density matrices. It can be easily computed theoretically and measured
experimentally. When N is an odd number, the measure can also be obtained in
principle.
