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The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to another, as well as to create, edit and publish e-books.
EPUB is a popular format for electronic data interchange because it can be an open format and is based on HTML, as opposed to Amazon's proprietary format for Kindle readers. Popular EPUB producers of public domain and open licensed content include Project Gutenberg , Standard Ebooks , PubMed Central , SciELO and others.
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 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.
Sumatra PDF is a free and open-source document viewer that supports many document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS, OXPS, XPS), and Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ). [3]
The NIST releases the Open eBook format based on XML to the public domain; most future e-book formats derive from Open eBook. [82] Publisher Simon & Schuster creates a new imprint called iBooks and becomes the first trade publisher to simultaneously publish some of its titles in e-book and print format.
Desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents. PDF Studio: Proprietary: Yes Yes Yes Yes Full feature PDF editor. Poppler-utils: GNU GPL: Yes Yes Unix Yes Converts PDF to other file format (text, images, html). pstoedit: GNU GPL: Yes Yes Unix Yes Converts PostScript to (other) vector graphics file format. QPDF ...
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.