International Digital Publishing Forum

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) was a trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry, set up to establish a standard for electronic book publishing. It was responsible for the EPUB standard currently used by most e-readers.

Starting from the Open eBook (OEB) Publication Structure (1999), created loosely around HTML, it then defined the OPS (Open Publication Structure), the OPF (Open Packaging Format) and the OCF (Open Container Format). These formats are the basis for EPUB.

While the basic standards are established (pages, hyperlinks, definition of table of contents, authors, etc.), the hardware field intersects with some other standards, such as those for power of the hardware reader devices, and as of 2017 are still developing. Standards for ecommerce (including Digital Rights Management) are tied to the way the ebook is sold or delivered and are therefore controlled by vendors.

On January 30, 2017, IDPF was combined with and absorbed into the World Wide Web Consortium.^[1]

References

External links

• International Digital Publishing Forum
• International Digital Publishing Forum on Github

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Ebooks

Formats

• ePub
• FictionBook
• CBR/CBZ
• Kindle File Format
• Mobipocket
• PDF
• Plain text
• IBA

Reading

Devices	Amazon Kindle Barnes & Noble Nook Bookeen Elonex ebook enTourage eDGe Hanlin eReader iPad iRiver Story Kobo eReader Onyx Boox Plastic Logic Reader PocketBook eReader Rocket eBook SoftBook Smartphones Tablets
Software	Adobe Acrobat Adobe Digital Editions Aldiko Apple Books (iBooks) Aquafadas Blio Bluefire Reader Calibre FBReader Foliate Google Play Books Kindle app Kitabu Kobo Lector Lektz Lucifox Microsoft Reader MuPDF Okular OverDrive Media Console Snapplify STDU Viewer Sumatra PDF

Editing

• ABBYY FineReader
• AbiWord
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe RoboHelp
• Aquafadas
• Atlantis Word Processor
• Booktype
• Calibre
• Calligra Author
• Collabora Online
• eXeLearning
• Help & Manual
• HelpNDoc
• iBooks Author
• iStudio Publisher
• LaTeX
• LibreOffice
• MadCap Flare
• Oxygen XML Editor
• PagePlus
• Pages
• QuarkXPress
• Scrivener
• Sigil
• Writer2epub

Vendors

Commercial	Apple Books Store Amazon Kindle Store Baen Free Library Barnes & Noble Booktrack BookWalker Feedbooks Google Google Play Google Books Jarir.com Kobo Bookstore Sony Reader Store Smashwords
Noncommercial	Aozora Bunko Faded Page HathiTrust Internet Archive Project Gutenberg Australia Canada Standard Ebooks Wikisource

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• Academic journal publishing reform
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• Comparison of Android ebook reader software
• E-book lending
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• International Digital Publishing Forum
• Kindle single
• OPDS
• Reflowable document
• Self-publishing
• Semantic publishing