As per the survey in last five years, usage of print media is decreased drastically due to e-publishing awareness. This change is also related with the awareness of green concept to save trees to decrease the usage of paper. Another practical reason is that you can “store more in less” on e publishing concept. So many company including apple, motorola, sony and Kindle etc jump in to the e publishing industry with their products and many in to the pipeline like asus, acer etc.

E-Publishing is one of the rapidly growing industry In mobile technology domain. Many new language and publishing formats innovated and introduced with different features for different devices in a span of last 4 years. here is the list of few key e-publication formats and their abbreviations to recognize it.

Format list of e-publication formats and their abbreviations

Plain text files
Format: text
Published as: .txt

Hypertext Markup Language
Format: Hypertext
Published as: .htm; .html

Amazon Kindle
Format: Kindle
Published as: .azw

Open Electronic Package
Format: Open eBook
Published as: .opf

TomeRaider
Format: TomeRaider
Published as: .tr2; .tr3

Arghos Diffusion
Format: Arghos Reader
Published as: .aeh

Flip Books
Format: Interaxive media
Published as:

NISO Z39.86
Format: DAISY
Published as: DTB[citation needed]

FictionBook
Format: FictionBook
Published as: .fb2

Text Encoding Initiative
Format: TEI Lite
Published as: .xml[citation needed]

Plucker
Format: Plucker
Published as: plc

Compressed HM
Format: Microsoft Compressed HTML Help
Published as: .chm

Portable Document
Format: Adobe Portable Document
Published as: .pdf

ostScript
Format: PostScript
Published as: ps

DjVu
Format: DjVu
Published as: .djvu

Microsoft LIT
Format: Microsoft Reader
Published as: .lit

eReader

Formerly Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press

Format: Palm Media
Published as: . pdb

Desktop Author
Format: DNL Reader
Published as: .dnl; .exe

Newton eBook
Format: Newton eBook
Published as: .pkg

Founder Electronics
Format: Apabi Reader
Published as: .xeb; .ceb

Libris
Format: Mobile Information Device Profile
Published as: .lbr; .bin

Mobipocket
Format: Mobipocket
Published as: .prc; .mobi

Broadband eBooks
Format: Sony media
Published as: .lrf; .lrx

SSReader
Format: SSReader
Published as: .pdg

Source: Wikipedia