Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

September 9, 2012

Books as Islands/Silos – e-book formats

Filed under: eBooks,Publishing — Patrick Durusau @ 3:03 pm

After posting about the panel discussion on the future of the book, I looked up the listing of e-book formats at Wikipedia and found:

  1. Archos Diffusion
  2. Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
  3. Comic Book Archive file
  4. Compiled HTML
  5. DAISY – ANSI/NISO Z39.86
  6. Desktop Author
  7. DjVu
  8. EPUB
  9. eReader
  10. FictionBook (Fb2)
  11. Founder Electronics
  12. Hypertext Markup Language
  13. iBook (Apple)
  14. IEC 62448
  15. KF8 (Amazon Kindle)
  16. Microsoft LIT
  17. Mobipocket
  18. Multimedia eBooks
  19. Newton eBook
  20. Open Electronic Package
  21. Portable Document Format
  22. Plain text files
  23. Plucker
  24. PostScript
  25. SSReader
  26. TealDoc
  27. TEBR
  28. Text Encoding Initiative
  29. TomeRaider

Beyond different formats, the additional issue being that each book stands on its own.

Imagine a “hover” over a section of interest in a book and relevant other “sections” from other books are also displayed.

Is anyone working on a mapping across these various formats? (Not conversion, “mapping across” language chosen deliberately. Conversion might violate a EULA. Navigation with due regard to the EULA would be difficult to prohibit.)

I realize some of them are too seldom used for commercially viable material to be of interest. Or may be of interest only in certain markets (SSReader for instance).

Not the classic topic map case of identifying duplicate content in different guises but producing navigation across different formats to distinct material.

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