Open eBook Overview

An eBook contains the text of a printed book and can be read on a personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or an electronic device designed specifically for reading eBooks (eBook reader) according to OEB structure gives content providers minimal and common guidelines for presenting electronic text content. eBooks are designed to look and act as much as possible like traditional printed book pages.

This software supports version 1.0.1 of the Open eBook Publication Structure, document described structure is available at http://www.openebook.com/specification.htm and gives opportunity to generate Microsoft ® Reader's .LIT eBook files using Microsoft ® Reader Content SDK 1.5 incorporated in this software. .LIT is a binary compressed file used by Microsoft ® Reader and compiled from Open eBook sources. Note that Microsoft ® Reader eBook implementation differs in some details in comparison with OEB standard. 

This manual currently does not included detailed information how to create Open eBook, fortunately, it is not complicated task.

In a few words, to create Open eBook and then generate LIT file you must create package file and lists all HTML files included in eBook to create with it.

To simplify generating LIT files, this software include LIT generator master allows to create LIT file from HTML source file in one step.

See also:

Open eBook markup reference

Open eBook package reference

External links:

Open eBook Publication Structure  

Microsoft ® Reader download http://www.microsoft.com/reader/