Not exact matches
Best practice at present would be to follow the ISBN
standard recommendations and show the individual ISBNs of the product
in question, and,
in addition, all manifestations of the identical textual content (the «work»)
in eBook formats and
in print.
epub file
format)-- a new open
standard for production and distribution of
ebooks,
in particular re-flowable
ebooks that can automatically reformat to produce readable output on different screen sizes.
With the iPad continuing to sell well and ePub the
standard for the iBook app for browsing for books on the iPad, it is important to get your book
in the ePub
format so you can share your
ebook easily!
Since Stanza was released there have been several other
eBook readers released for the iPod Touch allowing
eBooks in many different file
formats (including the ePub
eBook standard) to be downloaded -LSB-...]
Amazon's recent launch of its own eReader hardware, the Kindle, has led to some questioning about the long term plans for its Mobipocket initiative but
in spite of that, the
format is well developed, based on some widely used
standards, and has a slick (free)
ebook production tool.
But Google lets you download your purchase
in the industry
standard ePub
format, with most commercial
ebooks also encrypted using Adobe's ACS4 digital rights management (DRM).
Maybe I wasn't clear enough: Baen Books makes whole books available free
in all
standard ebook formats.
Next to zero participation
in developing
ebook format and
ebook - related
standards, mostly letting tech - oriented companies run rampant with no consideration to production or distribution costs.
EPUB is the industry
standard eBook format, so it is supported
in many devices and software applications (collectively known as «reading systems»).
Kobo and Sony e-readers work with library
ebooks in Canada while most Kindle models don't support the open
standard (EPUB)
format used by libraries.
«De facto
standard» means one
in dominant position by public acceptance and market forces, which means Mobi / PRC is actually de facto
standard for
ebook format.
One of the benefits is that you can import
in eBooks that are
in the
standard EPUB
format, that you might have downloaded from the internet.
Since Stanza was released there have been several other
eBook readers released for the iPod Touch allowing
eBooks in many different file
formats (including the ePub
eBook standard) to be downloaded from any one of the many sources that have both free (public domain) and commercial
eBook titles.
The goal of my own personal project is to provide Project Gutenberg
eBooks formatted in the ePub
eBook standard and make freely available from epubBooks.com.
Some interesting details from McCoy's interview include the explanation of Amazon's adoption of the ePub file
format — as opposed to its
standard MOBI
format — for Japanese
ebooks in light of the Amazon.jp store launch, as well as Kobo «s ePub - only
ebook store formed by parent company Rakuten.
The Kindle Fire has native support for this new
format and allows authors / publishers more freedom
in delivering enhanced
ebook content using next generation web
standards.
It is technically possible to include this sort of
formatting in ebooks, but this means that they will have to be converted to a different
standard (epub 3), which is not as widely compatible as epub 2.
For the most part, many
ebooks that do not rely on images or graphics throughout will be
in the
standard ePub
format.
Our
standard eBook conversion prices are based on a digital file
in either Word, PDF, or Html
format that is straight text (no tables, indexes or complex
formatting etc) only.
It's already commonplace, a
standard feature
in any PDF file for instance (still, by the way, the most popular
format for
ebooks).
If you have a beautifully designed Children's Picture book or a Photography book with images laid out
in specific layout or perhaps a Magazine or Comic the
standard way of
formatting an
ebook may not be enough and it may be better to have your book as a fixed layout
ebook.
This presentation will focus on the
formatting options available
in ePub, how open
standards like CSS are implemented
in the real world, and identify those features of
ebooks which can be controlled — and those that are just part of the new publishing reality.
Enjoy freedom of choice and buy new
eBooks and audio books
in the open
standard formats EPUB, PDF, TXT and MP3 whenever and wherever you want.
Moon + Reader
in my opinion is the gold
standard when it comes to reading
ebooks on android powered devices as it's pretty fast, immensely customizable and supports quite a range of file
formats.
Many Print on Demand companies will accept a manuscript
in MS Word
format, and some DIY authors go the extra mile by first using Word or a similar package for typesetting to a near - professional
standard, converting the Word file to a PDF
format with free or proprietary software, and then selling the
eBook themselves on the Internet.
I'm mostly a print guy, and have no particular expertise
in EPUB or other
ebook formats, but it's obvious that better software
standards and better interpreters on the hardware end will make a huge difference about how we can design these books.
Other features include ten built -
in translation dictionaries (including French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Dutch) and the ability to display a range of digital
formats, including the popular EPUB
eBook standard plus PDF and TXT documents.
Sell or lend rights - protected
eBooks in PDF, EPUB or EPUB3, a reflowing industry -
standard format for digital
eBooks.
Fixed - layout
eBooks offer much more
in way of
formatting and layout than
standard eBooks, and fixed - layout titles can closely replicate the layout of a print PDF or InDesign file.
epub version of your book (EPUB is an open industry
ebook standard managed by the IDPF) and the file is
formatted to the best practice requirements documented
in the Smashwords Style Guide, you can upload your EPUB directly to Smashwords.
Sony recently announced that it was switching the content
in its
eBook Store from a proprietary
format to the ePub
standard - a move to counter Amazon's «lock -
in» of e-book content sold through its store, which only works on its Kindle devices (or Kindle software on the iPhone and iPod touch).
It is based on a variety of other technologies and
standards, like Open
eBook and XHTML 1.1, but its uniqueness is
in how it combines these
standards to provide a solid
formatting foundation for
eBooks of just about every shape and size.
The chipping away at the open web is also being advanced by some factions
in the
ebook industry, who are pushing for a W3C
standard to lock up
formatted text, possibly leading to paywall sites, as Cory Doctorow suggests
in this Guardian article.
As long as Amazon has 70 % of
ebook sales, their
format and DRM is a de facto
standard and publishers can not afford to pick sides
in the DRM wars.
Sony recently announced that it was switching the content
in its
eBook Store from a proprietary
format to the ePub
standard — a move to counter Amazon's «lock -
in» of e-book content sold through its store, which only works on its Kindle devices (or Kindle software on the iPhone and iPod touch).
Content owners» intellectual property will be well - protected with Barnes & Noble's best -
in - class digital rights management technology and offered
in the industry
standard ePub
format that allows publishers» works to be enjoyed by millions of Barnes & Noble customers on hundreds of the most popular computing, mobile and
eBook reading devices.