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E-Book Formats
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Amazon Kindle
| Format: |
Kindle |
| Published as: |
.azw |
With the launch of the Kindle eBook reader, Amazon.com created the AZW format. It is based on the Mobipocket standard, with a slightly different serial number scheme (it uses an asterisk instead of a Dollar sign) and its own DRM formatting. Because the eBooks bought on the Kindle are delivered
wirelessly over EvDO (the system is called Whispernet by Amazon), the
user does not see the AZW files during the download process. ePub
| Format: |
ePub |
| Published as: |
.ePub |
ePub is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ePub allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through a variety of distribution channels and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The format is fast becoming an industry standard, supported by most e-book merchants and devices, including Barnes & Noble's nook, Android-powered devices, Sony eReader, Apple's iPad and many others.
Mobipocket
| Format: |
Mobipocket |
| Published as: |
.prc; .mobi |
The Mobipocket e-book format based on the Open eBook standard using XHTML can include JavaScript and frames. It also supports native SQL queries to be used with embedded databases. There is a corresponding e-book reader. A free e-book of the German Wikipedia has been published in Mobipocket format.[7]
The Mobipocket Reader has a home page library. Readers can add blank pages in any part of a book and add free-hand drawings. Annotations — highlights, bookmarks, corrections, notes, and drawings — can be applied, organized, and recalled from a single location. Mobipocket Reader has electronic bookmarks, and a built-in dictionary
The reader has a full screen mode for reading and support for many PDAs, Communicators, and Smartphones. Mobipocket products support most Windows, Symbian, BlackBerry and Palm operating systems. On Linux and Macintosh applications like Okular and FBReader can be used to read non-encrypted files.
The Amazon Kindle's AZW format is basically just the Mobipocket format with a slightly different serial number scheme (it uses an asterisk instead of a Dollar sign).
Mobipocket is working on an .epub to .mobi converter called mobigen.[8]
Microsoft LIT
| Format: |
Microsoft Reader |
| Published as: |
.lit |
DRM-protected LIT files are only readable in the proprietary Microsoft Reader program, as the .LIT format, otherwise similar to Microsoft's CHM format, includes Digital Rights Management features. Other third party readers, such as Lexcycle Stanza, can read unprotected LIT files. There are also tools such as Convert Lit, which can convert .lit files to HTML files or OEBPS files.
The Microsoft Reader uses patented ClearType display technology. In Reader navigation works with a keyboard, mouse,
stylus, or through electronic bookmarks. The Catalogue Library records
reader books in a personalized "home page", and books are displayed
with ClearType to improve readability. A user can add annotations and
notes to any page, create large-print e-books with a single command, or
create free-form drawings on the reader pages. A built-in dictionary
allows the user to look up words.
eReader
- Formerly Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press
| Format: |
Palm Media |
| Published as: |
. pdb |
eReader is a freeware program for viewing Palm Digital Media electronic books. Versions are available for iPhone, PalmOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Pocket PC/Smartphone, desktop Windows, and Macintosh.
The reader shows text one page at a time, as paper books do. eReader
supports embedded hyperlinks and images. Additionally, the Stanza application for the iPhone and iPod Touch can read both encrypted and unencrypted eReader files.
The company's web site - ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader-formatted ebooks, available for
purchase and download, with a small number of title for free. (Public domain, a mid-period Lee Childs.) The paid-for books are encrypted, with the key being the purchaser's full name and credit card number. This information is not preserved in the ebook. A one-way hash is used, so there no risk of the user's information being extracted.
The program supports features like bookmarks and footnotes, enabling
the user to mark any page with a bookmark, and any part of the text
with a footnote-like commentary. Footnotes can later be exported as a
Memo document.
The company also offers two Windows/MacOS programs for producing ebooks: the free Dropbook, and the paid-for eBook Studio. Dropbook is simply a file-oriented PML-to-PDB converter, and eBook Studio incorporates a WYSIWYG editor. PML (Palm Markup Language) is basically text with embedded
formatting tags, so feeding a pure text file into eBook Studio or
Dropbook also works.
There is also support for an integrated reference dictionary (with
many options up to and including a 476,000-word Merriam-Webster
Dictionary, including pronunciation keys) so that any word in the text
can be highlighted and looked up on the dictionary instantly.
Commercial fonts can also be individually purchased and downloaded at
the company's web site, ereader.com.
On July 20, 2009, Barnes & Noble announced[4] that the eReader format would be the method they use to deliver eBooks.
Updated versions of the Palm Digital programs for Apple iPhone/Touch,
Blackberry, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms were made available on the Barnes & Noble eBooks website.
Portable Document
| Format: |
Adobe Portable Document |
| Published as: |
.pdf |
A file format created by Adobe Systems, initially to provide a standard form for storing and editing printed publishable documents. The format derives from PostScript,
but without language features like loops, and with added support for
features like compression and passwords. Because PDF documents can
easily be viewed and printed by users on a variety of computer platforms, they are very common on the World Wide Web. The specification of the format is available without charge from Adobe.
PDF files typically contain brochures, product manuals, magazine
articles — up to entire books, as they can embed fonts, images,
and other documents. A PDF file contains one or more zoomable page
images.
Since the format is designed to reproduce page images, the text
traditionally could not be re-flowed to fit the screen width or size.
As a result PDF files designed for printing on standard paper sizes are
less easily viewed on screens with limited size or resolution, such as
those found on mobile phones and PDAs.
Adobe has addressed this by adding a re-flow facility to its Acrobat
Reader software, but for this to work the document must be marked for
re-flowing at creation [3],
which means existing PDF documents will not benefit unless they are
tagged and resaved. The Windows Mobile (aka Pocket PC) version of Adobe
Acrobat will automatically attempt to tag a PDF for reflow during the
synchronization process using an installed plugin to Active Sync.
However, this tagging process will not work on most locked or password
protected PDF documents. It also doesn't work at present (2009-10) on
the Windows Mobile Device Center (Active Syncs Successor) as found in
Windows Vista and Windows 7. This limits automatic tagging support
during synchronization to Windows XP/2000.
Multiple products support creating and tagging PDF files, such as Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator, OpenOffice.org, and FOP, and several programming libraries. Acrobat Reader (now simply called Adobe Reader) is Adobe's product used to view PDF files, with third party viewers such as xpdf also available. Mac OS X has built-in PDF support, both for creation as
part of the printing system and for display using the built-in Preview
application.
Later versions of the specification add support for forms, comments, hypertext links,
and even interactive elements such as buttons for forms entry and for
triggering sound and video. Such features may not be supported by older
or third-party viewers and some are not transferrable to print.
PDF files are supported on the following e-book readers: iRex iLiad, iRex DR1000, Sony Reader, Bookeen Cybook, Foxit eSlick and Amazon Kindle DX.
Source: Wikipedia
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