Electronic Publishing formats

Revision as of 00:21, 22 October 2015

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

E-book formats

• AZW
• Comic Book Archive (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7)
• DocBook
• EPUB
• IMP
• LRF
• MOBI
• PRC

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.

Other formats

• News Industry Text Format
• ScienceServer XML format

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