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Growth

In the late 1990s ezine publishers began adapting to the interactive qualities of the Internet instead of duplicating magazines on the web. Publishers of traditional print titles and entrepreneurs with an eye to a potential readership in the millions started publishing online titles. Salon.com founded in July 1995 by David Talbot was launched with considerable media exposure and today reports 5.8 million monthly unique visitors.

In the 2000s, some webzines began appearing in a printed format to complement their online versions. These included Movie Insider, Slate, Synthesis and Lucire magazines.

Conferences

Between 1998 and 2005, in San Francisco and New York, a series of webzine-focused conferences brought together independent personal online publishers to share their experiences. Started by Srini Kumar, the "Webzine" conferences were continued primarily by filmmaker Ryan Junell and Eddie Codel. Junell has worked to track the history of the early webzine movement through these festivals; his research is linked below. After a hiatus, Codel and Junell organized the return of the Webzine conference to the Bay Area in 2005. Webzine 2005 took place over two days at the Swedish-American Hall in San Francisco. It consisted of three main areas: speakers and panel discussions, workshops and a self-organizing area called the Master's Lounge modeled after BAR Camp. Webzine 2005 was emceed by veteran Webzine emcee Justin Hall, Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders.

Today there are many conferences that address online magazine publishing from a variety of perspectives.

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An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers (those investing time or money in its production) and the readership.

Online magazines that are part of the World Wide Web, that is, all or part of a website, are sometimes called webzines. An ezine (also spelled e-zine and usually pronounced /ˈiːziːn/) is a more specialized term appropriately applied to small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by electronic mail (e-mail/email) (see Zine). Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines" to reflect their readership demographics, and more importantly to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches.

Many large print-publishers now provide digital reproduction of their print magazine titles through various online services for a fee. These service providers also refer to their collections of these digital format products as online magazines, and sometimes as digital magazines.

Online magazines representing matters of interest to specialists in or societies for academic subjects, science, trade or industry are typically referred to as online journals.

Business model

Many general interest online magazines provide free access to all aspects of their online content although some publishers have opted to require a subscription fee to access premium online article and/or multi-media content. Online magazines may generate revenue based on targeted search ads to web-site visitors, banner ads (online display advertising), affiliations to retail web sites, classified advertisements, product-purchase capabilities, advertiser directory links, or alternative informational/commercial purpose.

The original online magazines, ezines and disk magazines, due to their low cost and initial non-mainstream targets, may be seen as a disruptive technology to traditional publishing houses. The high cost of print publication and large web readership has encouraged these publishers to embrace the World Wide Web as a marketing and content delivery system and another medium for delivering their advertisers' messages.

List of E-book software 2

FlippingBookFlippingBook product line enables the conversation opportunity of a wide range of the traditional publication formats (like PDF, JPG, SWF etc.) to the multimedia applications that support video, audio and a real page-flip effect. It converts both to online publication using Adobe Flash and offline ones that can be run locally without internet.

Glogster
A ‘glog’ is an online poster web page where users combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio to create an interactive online poster. The glog can be embedded into a blog, school or class web site, or remain hosted by Glogster.

Kerpoof
Users draw, create pictures, cards, books, and movies using Kerpoof. There are tools available for users to create stories that can be printed out or movies that they write and direct. These files can be saved right on the website or saved locally so students can revisit their picture, story, or movie. Users can share their artwork online with the community.

KooBits
KooBits allows users to create multimedia ebooks complete with video, flash, animated text, image, audio and other elements. The author can add interactivity in the ebook by setting the controls of objects to react in response to a reader's behavior. Users can choose to work in the offline mode and then sync the completed project online when a connection is established, or work entirely online. The ebooks can be shared in the KooBits Facebook widget.

Microsoft Word
The most widely used form of text-based ebook is Microsoft Word. It has all the features of a powerful word processor and works on Windows PC and Mac. Anyone with Microsoft Word can immediately edit content in a document. With the Microsoft Word 2007 version, users can save and convert the document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader needs to be installed to read PDF files.

Scrapblog
Scrapblog brings the traditional paper scrapbook into digital form, allowing users to mix photos, videos, audio and text into a scrapblog and publish creations online. Users beautify their projects with backgrounds, frames and stickers just like in a conventional scrapbook, but with the advantages of the internet.

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An ebooks software is basically what the term suggests – a software that facilitates the creation of ebooks. Besides ebooks, users also create digital scrapbooks, photomontages, brochures, school year books, journals, catalogues, manuals, magazines, cards and more on such platforms. As nations emphasize the need to sustain the global environment and encourage their people to cut back on paper and ink, and with virtual publication being able to reach anyone from any point in the world, more people are taking their reading interests online. Books previously printed on paper are now available on computer screens, mobile phones and other ebook devices. One of the greatest benefits brought about by ebooks software is the ability for anyone to create professional ebooks without having to fork out thousands of dollars to design and publish a book. People can easily become authors overnight and earn income from selling online ebooks. The wide circulation, availability, and interactivity  of ebooks have changed the way traditional print books are consumed by the market.

Ebooks software
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is a rich digital imaging software that allows users to draw, paint, blend, color, sharpen and create other advanced artistic effects for photos and graphics, and develop attractive and well-designed ebook covers.

Deadeasy Ebook Maker
The Deadeasy Ebook Maker is software designed to allow the user to create an audio, video, text including image, you tube and script such as a Paypal Button. The end result is an easily created interactive book which runs on the user's computer, it's simple to make and add affiliate links to monetise and can make talking books, photo albums, presentations or in fact almost anything.

Flipalbum
Flipalbum provides users the ability to create page-flipping digital photo albums, and pages are flipped by clicking the mouse. Users can enhance album pages with themes and backgrounds to create photo albums and distribute them online or via CDs. Flipalbum supports standard image, music and video formats and allows text, captions and multiple images to be inserted in one page.

Electronic publishing

Electronic publishing or ePublishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed paper scientific journals are in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing. Although distribution via the Internet (also known as online publishing or web publishing when in the form of a website) is nowadays strongly associated with electronic publishing, there are many non network electronic publications such as Encyclopedias on CD and DVD, as well as technical and reference publications relied on by mobile users and others without reliable and high speed access to a network.

After an article is submitted to a journal for consideration, there can be a delay ranging from several months to more than two years before it is published in a journal, rendering journals a less than ideal format for disseminating current research.

In some fields such as astronomy and some parts of physics, the role of the journal in disseminating the latest research has largely been replaced by preprint repositories such as arXiv.org.

However, scholarly journals still play an important role in quality control and establishing scientific credit. In many instances, the electronic materials uploaded to preprint repositories are still intended for eventual publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

There is statistical evidence that electronic publishing provides wider dissemination. A number of journals have, while retaining their peer review process, established electronic versions or even moved entirely to electronic publication.

Electronic publishing is increasingly popular in works of fiction as well as with scientific articles. Electronic publishers are able to provide quick gratification for late-night readers, books that customers might not be able to find in standard book retailers (erotica is especially popular in eBook format , and books by new authors that would be unlikely to be profitable for traditional publishers.

While the term "electronic publishing" is primarily used today to refer to the current offerings of online and web-based publishers, the term has a history of being used to describe the development of new forms of production, distribution, and user interaction in regard to computer-based production of text and other interactive media.

SoftBook

SoftBook, "The Intelligent Reading System," was one of the first dedicated electronic book (eBook) readers. It was released in 1998 by SoftBook Press, Inc. of Menlo Park, California.

Overview

The SoftBook, designed by IDEO and Lunar Design[1], featured a brown leather cover which flipped back to give the device a more book-like feel, and was notable for its large 6 × 8 inch (15.2 × 20.3 cm) touchscreen display which allowed you to navigate the HTML-based pages as well as highlight and draw simple notes on the pages. It could store approximately 1,500 pages (expandable up to 100,000), and claimed that the rechargeable battery allowed up to 5 hours of reading time.

Use of the SoftBook did not require a desktop computer or an Internet service provider; it had an RJ11 telephone jack and internal 33.6 Kbps modem to connect with the "SoftBookstore" to download books. Publishers included HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, and others, and subscriptions to periodicals such as Newsweek, Time, and The Wall Street Journal were available (which could be downloaded automatically overnight if you kept the device plugged in to a phone jack). You could upload your own documents via their Internet web site to download onto your SoftBook.[2]

The SoftBook was the first device to comply with the Open eBook specification, which was "based primarily on technology developed by SoftBook Press."[3]

Specifications
Technical specifications printed on the back of the product box:

    * Weight: 2.9 lbs (1.3 kg)
    * Display: 9.5 inch (24.1 cm) diagonal, greyscale, backlit, touch-sensitive LCD, built-in protective cover
    * Capacity: 2 MB (1,500 pages), expandable to 64 MB with Flash miniature card (50–100,000 pages)
    * Modem: Built-in 33.6 Kbps modem; download approximately 100 pages per minute
    * Power: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack. Up to 5 hours reading time (less than two-hour recharge). AC power adapter. Optional recharge cradle.
    * Reading tools: Sophisticated searching, bookmarking, hyperlinking, text markup, stylus for marking and highlighting.
    * System requirements: Analog telephone connection. AC power outlet for battery recharge.
    * Price: $599.95 USD (original MSRP), or $299.95 plus $19.95 per month for a 24 month "content package" contract (totalling $778.75)

SoftBook utilized US 4597058  and US 4725977
SoftBook Press, Inc.

SoftBook Press, Inc. was founded by James Sachs and Tom Pomeroy in 1996[4], and located at 1075 Curtis St., Menlo Park CA, 94025. Book conversion was managed by The Lowe-Martin Group of Ottawa ON.[5]

In 2000, SoftBook Press was acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide International, who also acquired its competitor, NuvoMedia (creator of the Rocket eBook), and merged them into the Gemstar eBook Group.[6]

Digital Reader 1000

The Digital Reader 1000 (DR1000) is an e-Book reading device that was produced by iRex in the Netherlands, but this company does not exist anymore. It has a 10.2-inch (25.9 cm) e-ink display.

Three different versions exist, or are planned:

    * DR1000 (without touchscreen)

    * DR1000S (with touchscreen)

    * DR1000SW (with touchscreen and wifi & Bluetooth connectivity)

The DR1000 has an internal memory of 128MB, and ships with a 1GB SD card. The manufacturer suggests that this would be sufficient to store up to 1,000 documents or pictures. The S and SW models have touchscreens compatible with Wacom styluses.

Compatible formats

The iRex DR1000 can display various text formats including PDF, TXT, HTML and Mobipocket. In addition, it can display images in JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and BMP formats.

Criticism

The DR1000 was originally marketed as able to "last days" on a single battery charge, while users report battery life of 12 hours at most. The statement has since been removed from the IRex product page around the time that version 1.5 of the device firmware was released.

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The Networked Book is Processed

The future book will be a networked book or a "processed book" as Joseph Esposito [4] calls it. To process a book, he says, is more than simply building links to it; processing also includes a modification of the act of creation, which tends to encourage the absorption of the book into a network of applications, including but not restricted to commentary. This "processing" creates iterations of the book: critiques, revisions and trajectories that accumulate around the original draft. The iterations of Wikipedia are a good example of this principle. The networked book, as a process-based knowledge machine incorporates the thinking process of multiple authors.

Processing the Networked Book

It is useful, in this case, to compare the processing of a networked book to the standard editorial procedures found in print culture. Both print books and networked books originate from an idea conceived by a senior editor or an author. However, the participatory framework of a networked book is articulated by a designer, and executed by a programmer, before the content is written or assembled, thus creating an open book structure. Paper-based books are turned over to the designer, production artist and printer after the content is finished, resulting in a closed book structure. The networked book is assembled, in whole or in part, by a community of authors according to the thesis imagined by the editor/author and within the space created by the designer and programmer.

The community of contributors acts as both author and reader, which is drastically different from the single-author print model wherein, reader is audience rather than co-creator. In a networked book, content is generated and revised by the community and the various iterations of the text are often saved and can be returned to and discussed. In a paper-based book, content is generally constructed by a single author and is revised under the supervision of an editor. The readers have no part in this process and the revisions are only examined and debated in special cases, and then usually by scholars or authors, not by the general readership. After the content has been generated by the community within the framework of the network book's thesis and architecture, the reader/editor implements strategies for marking out meaningful pathways through the material using search engines and visualization applications.