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eBook Specifications and Standards Work
- Open eBook Forum
- An
association of developers, publishers, and users of electronic books,
organized to create and maintain standards and promote the successful
adoption of electronic books.
- Electronic Book Exchange Working
Group
- An association of companies, organizations, and individuals
developing a standard for protecting copyright in electronic books and
for distributing electronic books among publishers, distributors, retailers,
libraries, and consumers.
- ONIX International
- An
international standard for representing and communicating book industry
product information in electronic form, ONIX International is being
developed by EDItEUR, the European Group for electronic commerce in the
book and serials sectors.
- Association
of American
Publishers
- Announcement of the use of ONIX International as the
metadata
standard for electronic books, specifically providing for numbering (Digital
Object Identifiers) and Rights Management, to be implemented in conjunction
with the Open eBook Specification.
- "Onix Explained"
- A
description of the eBook metadata standard, provided by NetRead.Com (an IT
portal site from the developers of marketing products for publishers).
- Bibliofuture
Library Standard
- An effort to define the minimal features that an electronic book reader
should have. Bibliofuture is developing a working document that will allow
librarians and users to judge whether or not they have the same level of
access, information, functionality, and privacy with electronic books as
was available with paper printing.
eBook News Publications and Discussion Forums
- eBookNet
- News, information, and
discussion on all aspects of electronic publishing--technology,
publications, and business issues.
- BookTech the Magazine
- An
online publication targeted to book and multimedia publishers and their key
suppliers. Select "eBooks/Internet publishing" from the Special Interest
Communities menu.
- Journal of Electronic
Publishing
- An academic journal/magazine emphasizing broad issues
that should shape policy in professional, academic, and scientific use of
electronic publishing technology.
- eBook Connections
- A
resource for readers of electronic books, with news and information,
bestseller
lists, an e-zine, reviews and recommendations.
eBook News Articles through Major Search Services
- Google
eBooks news articles
- Top/Computers/E-Books/News Articles
- Hot
Bot eBooks news articles
- Top/Computers/E-Books/News Articles
- Lycos
eBooks news articles
- Lycos Home/Computers/E-Books/News Articles
Electronic Publishing Resources (links and bibliography)
- Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography
- Over 1250 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources of
information on scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and
other networks.
- XML Portal Site
- A directory of resources on all aspects of XML; from the Netherlands
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