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Standardization aspects of eBook content formats

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Nicholas Guttenberg,

Victor McCraryAuthors Info & Claims

Computer Standards & Interfaces, Volume 24, Issue 3

Pages 227 - 239

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5489(02)00032-6

Published: 01 July 2002 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents the necessity and direction of a standard for representing contents of electronic books (eBooks). To identify the current problems of content formats, as a case study, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) in terms of functional aspects as well as critical standardization issues such as interoperability, openness, applicability, and extensibility. Particularly, this paper suggests an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based improvement of the OEB format as a standard. This paper also describes that PDF can be used together for different aspects of publishing process.

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Vieira NPinto ASilva FOkuno HAmorim IRamos THaddad DAmorim GGuedes Gdos Santos JNeto MNovais RFerraz CViana W(2018)Evaluating the Influence of Mulsemedia Content in ReadingProceedings of the 24th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/3243082.3267446(133-136)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2018
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Ma LRau P(2011)Reading chinese in e-book readersProceedings of the 4th international conference on Internationalization, design and global development10.5555/2028768.2028794(211-219)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2011
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