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Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 16 Comparison of e-book formats From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books. Contents A writer or publisher has many options when it comes to choosing a format for publication. While ■ 1 Format descriptions the average end-user might arguably simply want to ■ 1.1 Archos Diffusion read books, every format has its proponents. The ■ 1.2 Broadband eBooks (BBeB) myriad e-book formats are sometimes collectively ■ 1.3 Comic Book Archive file referred to as the "Tower of eBabel".[1] ■ 1.4 Compiled HTML Nonetheless, some eBook formats are demonstrably ■ 1.5 DAISY - ANSI/NISO Z39.86 more popular, and more widely supported than ■ 1.6 DjVu others. The EPUB format is the most widely ■ 1.7 EPUB [citation needed] ■ 1.8 eReader supported vendor-independent XML- ■ 1.9 FictionBook (Fb2) based (as opposed to PDF) e-book format; that is, it ■ 1.10 Founder Electronics is supported by the largest number of e-Readers. ■ 1.11 Hypertext Markup Language The popularity of Amazon.com's Kindle devices in ■ 1.12 iBook (Apple) America has led also to the prominence of KF8 and ■ 1.13 IEC 62448 AZW formats; Kindle does not support EPUB. ■ 1.14 KF8 (Amazon Kindle) ■ 1.15 Microsoft LIT The file size for texts without images depends on ■ 1.16 Mobipocket the file format, but is always relatively small ■ 1.17 Multimedia eBooks compared with a richly illustrated text. ■ 1.18 Newton eBook ■ 1.19 Open Electronic Package ■ 1.20 Portable Document Format Format descriptions ■ 1.21 Plain text files ■ 1.22 Plucker Formats available include, but are by no means ■ 1.23 PostScript limited to: ■ 1.24 SSReader ■ 1.25 TEBR Archos Diffusion ■ 1.26 Text Encoding Initiative ■ 1.27 TomeRaider ■ 2 Comparison tables Format: Archos Reader ■ 2.1 Features Published as: .aeh ■ 2.2 Supporting platforms ■ 3 See also The AEH format is an XML-based proprietary ■ 4 References format developed by the French firm Archos ■ 5 External links Diffusion. AEH files use a proprietary DRM and encryption method and are readable only in the Archos Player. It supports various input formats for text, audio or video, such as PDF, WMA, MP3, WMV, and allows multiple interactive functions such as bookmarking, advanced plain-text searching, dynamic text highlighting, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats 4/24/2013.

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