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eBooks
Alongside print data, the items most frequently produced by le-tex are eBooks. eBooks can be categorized according to their pagination:
- PDF-based eBooks correspond exactly to print products in terms of their pagination,
- Reflowable eBooks adjust to the page makeup of the screen size and the font size selected and are therefore also suitable for viewing on smaller display devices.
Reflowable eBooks are best generated from structured data.
From today's perspective, the most marketable data formats are EPUB (readable e.g. with Adobe Digital Editions or on the Sony PRS-505) and Mobipocket (Amazon Kindle). To be equipped to handle future eBook data formats however, content should not be saved exclusively in one of the current eBook formats but also in an XML format that is fully compatible with the features and characteristics of the content. This enables questions and answers to be marked up in teaching materials, for instance, and the right answer to be indicated as such in multiple choice questions. This approach makes it possible in future to generate every eBook format that supports user interaction, which would not be possible if the data was configured exclusively on EPUB.
Many publishers do not currently have structured content. However, these publishers do not want to miss out on the success of reflowable eBooks. In these cases, we usually suggest a dual strategy:
- Conversion of the backlist from printed PDFs or open typesetting data
- Change in the workflow:
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