Electronic Publishing formats

Formats specific to the storage and transmission of publications in electronic form.

For desktop publishing, see Document.

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

 * AARD
 * Apple dictionary
 * BGL (Babylon)
 * CC-CEDICT
 * Dic (Babylon)
 * Dictd
 * Lingvo DSL
 * Ling
 * Lingoes
 * Mdict MDX
 * Mova
 * ODict
 * Slob
 * SDictionary
 * StarDic
 * StarDict
 * SugarDict
 * XDXF

E-book formats

 * AZW
 * DocBook
 * EPUB
 * IMP
 * KFX (Kindle Format X)
 * LRF
 * MOBI
 * PalmDOC

Journals, magazines, newspapers, articles, etc.

 * Digital Replica Plus
 * Issuu
 * Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS / NLM)
 * News Industry Text Format
 * ScienceServer XML format

Scanned or archived book formats

 * Comic Book Archive (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7)
 * HathiTrust submission format

Other formats

 * FlipAlbum (.flp)
 * Portable Web Publications
 * RePub
 * Wordcruncher (.etb(u), .erl(u) .etg(u))
 * Onix LoC Description

See also Document, Markup, and Web, since e-publications might also be stored in formats (such as PDF and HTML) in those categories, and e-publishing formats may have roots in those formats.

Identifiers
Naming and numbering systems for identifying published material.


 * ARK
 * DOI
 * ISBN
 * ISSN

Links

 * Innovations in Scholarly Publishing - One of the biggest bottlenecks in Open Access publishing is typesetting. It shouldn't be.
 * DeDRM plugin for calibre: the simplest option for removing DRM from most ebooks
 * You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer
 * Even Amazon can't keep up the "you only license ebooks" shuck
 * How a Man in Austria Used Legos to Hack Amazon’s Kindle E-Book Security
 * Adobe is apparently introducing new "hardened" e-book DRM that will break compatibility with older readers
 * Another article on Adobe DRM move
 * libebook: library to read various e-book formats
 * The fight to save endangered ebooks
 * Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Textual Works
 * Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
 * Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books
 * Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries
 * Correcting Misinformation on the Adobe Privacy Gusher
 * War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
 * Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook
 * Removing DRM from e-books
 * How to Read an e-book…From 1991
 * Valid, but not accessible EPUB: crazy fixed layouts
 * File format assessment: eBook Summary (British Library)