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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Comparison of e-book formats 3

ANSI/NISO Z39.86 (DAISY)
Format:     DAISY
Published as:    

The Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) is an XML-based open standard maintained by the DAISY Consortium for people with print disabilities. DAISY has wide international support with features for multimedia, navigation and synchronization. A subset of the DAISY format has been adopted by law in the United States as the National Instructional Material Accessibility Standard (NIMAS), and K-12 textbooks and instructional materials are now required to be provided to students with disabilities.

DAISY is already aligned with the EPUB open standard, and is expected to fully converge with its forthcoming EPUB3 revision.
 
FictionBook (Fb2)
Format:     FictionBook
Published as:     .fb2

FictionBook is a popular XML-based e-book format, supported by free readers such as FBReader, Haali Reader and STDU Viewer. See http://haali.cs.msu.ru/pocketpc/FictionBook_description.html


Text Encoding Initiative
Format:     TEI Lite
Published as:     .xml[citation needed]
TEI Lite is the most[citation needed] popular of the TEI-based (and thus XML-based or SGML-based) electronic text formats.

Plucker
Format:     Plucker
Published as:    

Plucker is a free e-book reader application with its own associated file format and software to automatically generate plucker files from HTML files, web sites or RSS feeds. The format is a compressed HTML archive, somewhat like Microsoft's CHM.

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

CHM format is a proprietary format based on HTML. Multiple pages and embedded graphics are distributed along with proprietary metadata as a single compressed file. In contrast, in HTML, a site consists of multiple HTML files and associated image files in standardized formats.

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