An Investigation into Free eBooks

Berglund, Ylva; Morrison, Alan; Wilson, Rowan; Wynne, Martin

An Investigation into Free eBooks

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Authors: Berglund, Ylva ; Morrison, Alan ; Wilson, Rowan and Wynne, Martin

Date of publication: 2004

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Language(s): English

OTA identifier: ota:2952

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Final Report
March 2004

Ylva Berglund, 
Alan Morrison, 
Rowan Wilson, 
Martin Wynne



 Table of Contents 

    * Acknowledgements
    * Executive Summary
    * 1. Introduction
    * 2. Survey of Free e-Book Collections
          o 2.1. Tools to find free e-books
          o 2.2. A survey of free e-book sites
          o 2.3. Academic repositories
          o 2.4. Academic e-book creators
          o 2.5. Enthusiast e-book collections
          o 2.6. Single author/genre sites
          o 2.7. Reference, miscellany and foreign language resources
          o 2.8. Comments and conclusions
    * 3. Survey of text encoding formats
          o 3.1. Plain Text
          o 3.2. SGML
          o 3.3. HTML
          o 3.4. XML
          o 3.5. TEI
          o 3.6. DocBook
          o 3.7. Open e-book Publication Structure
          o 3.8. Microsoft Reader
          o 3.9. Rich Text Format
          o 3.10. Adobe PDF
          o 3.11. Palm PDB and PRC format . . .