Leaf Project - A book streaming platform Infrastructure SEBASTÍAN GALIANO KTH Information and Communication Technology Degree project in Communication Systems Second level, 30.0 HEC Stockholm, Sweden Leaf Project - A book streaming platform: Infrastructure Sebasti´anGaliano
[email protected] August 1, 2011 Abstract During the 21st century, humans have begun to have digital books and use in digital form most of their information, be this: image, sound, or printed materials. Some of these efforts have had great success. For images, the new digital cameras brought lots of new features, such as reduced physical size, higher quality, and error correction. For sound, digital music enables digital distribution, ease of sharing, and large amounts of storage. But, despite the recent efforts by Internet companies and publishers, the book industry has resisted success in the digital era. Today, new technologies enable us to distribute digital books. However, these digitised books are still represented in a traditional: as text and static images. However, our project is based on the believe that ones reading experience can evolve and benefit from current technology. The "Leaf" project's main objective is to create an electronic publication distribution platform that can equally satisfy publishers,writers, and readers. The project will create an environment to distribute digital publications that support more advanced technologies, providing in the future something beyond text and static images to the reader. This document describes the different aspects of design of an information technology infras- tructure designed to stream electronic publications. This part of the "Leaf" projects aims to describe the necessary information technology infrastructure needed as an electronic publication distribution platform.