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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment 5

Decent Essays

ePub site notes

Formats

Mobipocket - a french company created with ePub was in its infancy. They were purchased by amazon in 2005 when Amazon unveiled the Kindle. Mobipocket is HTML 3.2 and features some unique formatting options. -- Kindle can still read Mobipocket however it has been replaced by Kindle Format 8

Tech Specs - The Mobipocket format allows books to be locked with Digital Rights Management (DRM) or not. When an encrypted file is downloaded from a retailer it is locked to the user’s registered device. The Kindle devices use the same DRM, but files bought from Amazon cannot be read in old Mobipocket reading applications

When to Use - Not recommended.

Kindle Format 8 - Released in 2011, it replaced Mobipocket format and …show more content…

When an encrypted file is downloaded from Amazon it is locked to the user’s Kindle device. This DRM cannot be applied by anyone except Amazon.
Devices: KF8 eBooks can be read on any of the Kindle devices, as well as in any of theKindle Apps.
Extensions: Kindle files come in three different file extensions: .mobi, .prc, and .azw. There are no functional differences between these formats, and the files themselves are exactly the same.

While KF8 has many of the same features as ePub2 and ePub3, it is not the same. There are still some key differences between the formats, and we do recommend creating native Kindle files, not just auto-converting an ePub using an conversion tool like …show more content…

The iBooks Author format is only able to be read in the iBooks ecosystem, and it can only be created in the iBooks Author program on a Macintosh computer. iBooks Author files are inherently fixed layout, meaning that the design is static and does not allow the reader to change the font size or other visual settings. However, iBooks Author also has an option for creating a reflowable version of the content that can be accessed by changing the orientation of the device. Normally the fixed layout design is implemented in landscape while the reflowable design is implemented in portrait, but this can be determined by the designer creating the file. iBooks Author files should not be used for children’s eBooks because it does not have support for narration overlays (the Read Aloud function that is available in standard children’s fixed layout eBooks for Apple).
Apple calls these files “multi-touch” because they are designed to include interactive features and content, such as video, audio, and widgets. The format is also structured in a very consistent way for every eBook, with the chapters and each page within those chapters easily

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