E-publishing fly high
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
EPUB
Main article: EPUB
Format: IDPF/EPUB
Published as: .epub
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
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