Electronic Publishing formats

Revision as of 20:18, 30 September 2023

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

For desktop publishing, see Document#Desktop Publishing.

Dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

• AARD [1]
• Apple dictionary [2] [3]
• BGL (Babylon)
• CC-CEDICT
• Dic (Babylon) [4]
• Dictd
• Lingvo DSL [5]
• Ling [6]
• Lingoes [7]
• Mdict MDX [8]
• Mova [9]
• ODict [10]
• Slob [11]
• SDictionary [12] [13]
• StarDic
• StarDict
• SugarDict
• XDXF

E-book formats

• AZW
• DocBook
• EPUB
• IMP
• KFX (Kindle Format X)
• LRF
• MOBI
• PalmDOC
• Rocket eBook
• Shanda Bambook
• TomeRaider

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)