Open eBook (OEB), or formally, the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS), is a

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format which has been superseded by the

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format. It was "based primarily on technology developed by SoftBook Press" and on

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. OEB was released with a free version belonging to public domain and a full version to be used with or without DRM by the publishing industry. Open eBook is a ZIP file plus a

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. Inside the package a defined subset of

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may be used, along with CSS and

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metadata. The default file extension is .opf (OEB Package Format).

Specification release history

* September 2007 – ''Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0,

. Released, supersedes the OEBPS 1.2'' * August 2002 – ''OEBPS 1.2 Recommended Specification Released'' * June 2001 – ''OEBPS 1.0.1 replaces OEBPS 1.0'' * September 1999 – ''Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) 1.0 released''

Reader software

* SoftBook * Adobe Digital Editions * FBReader – GPL e-book reader for Unix/Windows computers. * Lexcycle Stanza * Mobipocket * Openberg Lector – cross-platform reader released under the GPL and based on

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platform

Reader devices

* SoftBook * Sony Reader – the Sony Reader PRS-505 supports the EPUB file format. * Intel Reader * Barnes & Noble Nook * Kobo eReader Audiobook and eMagazine library
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References

External links

Open eBook Forum

Openberg

Adobe's Sample eBook Library

Article "EPUB" at the MobileRead Wiki

ePub Validator - This utility allows to validate the epub file to ePub standards of 1.0.5
* https://github.com/idpf/epubcheck
EPUB Validator (beta)
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Specification release history

Reader software

Reader devices

See also

References

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