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EPUB Media Overlays 3.0, which defines a format and a processing model for synchronization of text and audio; The EPUB 3.0 format was intended to address the following criticisms: While good for text-centric books, EPUB was rather unsuitable for publications that require precise layout or specialized formatting, such as comic books. [8]
The FictionBook format does not specify the appearance of a document; instead, it describes its structure and semantics. All e-book metadata, such as the author name, title, and publisher, is also present in the file. Hence the format is convenient for automatic processing, indexing, and e-book collection management.
An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. [1]
The eBook then becomes more and more accessible through many different supports, like the e-reader and even smartphones. The digital book had, and still has, an important impact on publishing houses and their economical models; it is still a moving domain, and they yet have to master the new ways of publishing in a digital era. [23]
The digitization at the most basic level is based on page images of the physical books. To make this book available as an ePub formatted file we have taken those page images and extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short) technology. The extraction of text from page images is a difficult engineering task.
All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. As of 13 February 2024, Project Gutenberg had reached 70,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. [4] The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker wherever
Tagged PDF documents can contain an additional data layer that (among other things) allows content to reflow within the boundaries of one original page. [4] [5] FictionBook is a free reflowable format by design. It does not specify the appearance of a document; instead, it describes its structure.
The software supports EPUB and PDF (nonproprietary file format for reflowable text, or fixed layout e-books; respectively). It implements a proprietary scheme of digital rights management (DRM) which, since the version 1.5 release in May 2008, allows document sharing among multiple devices and user authentication via an Adobe ID.