○ EPUB

⤷ Acronym for Electronic Publication. An ebook format developed by the international Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is an open standard and the most commonly used and supported file formart for electronic books. EPUB was dsigned to accommodate reflowable content.

○ Electronic Publication

⤷ Beyond EPUB, A Electronic Publication is a publication generated, created and shown by an electronic device.

○ Traditional book

○ Art-oriented publishing

○ Design-oriented publishing

○ Hybrid publishing

○ Printed publishing

○ Word Processors (Microsoft Word)

○ Desktop publishing suites (DTP)

⤷ The design of printed matter on a personal computer using graphical What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) software such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress. DTP software useas a graphical user interface to visually simulate the nalog desks used in pre-digital times by graphic and editorial designers.

○ Do-it-yourself (DIY)

○ Markdown

⤷ Word processing format

○ Small-edition

○ Synergy

○ Low cost

○ Ease to use

○ Sustainability

○ Platform independence

○ Open Source

○ Layout

○ Intra-acting

○ E-paper

⤷ Word processing format

○ E-reader hardware

○ Plain Text

⤷ Text without any visual fomratting (such as bold, italic, font types and sizes, clickable hyperlinks, etc.) ASCII is the oldest and still

○ E-reader software

○ WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)

○ Logical-semantic markup

○ HTML (hypertext Markup Language)

○ Electronic text

○ Paged-centered

○ Reflowable

A reflowable document is a document without a predefined page layout, in which the page dimensions are dynamically and automatically adapted (includind page breaks) to each screen size. The pages are contextualized.

○ Context

○ Optical character recognition (OCR)

○ Hyperlinks

○ Sympoiesis

⤷ Create with...

○ Bitstreams

○ One-to-one:

⤷ single book published in different media

○ One-to-many:

⤷ single book that has different appearances in different media

○ One-to-database:

⤷ book based on the content of the data base which can be used in a number of ways

○ Table of contents

○ Autopoiesis

⤷ The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-) 'self', and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts and eventually further components.