| Online publishing or electronic publishing means | | | | publishing industry for enhancing the quality of a |
| publishing e-books and electronic articles as well as | | | | printed page from the actual output of bitmap file. |
| development of digital libraries by way of the | | | | Other advanced formats include TeX, used as a |
| Internet. Online publishing is fast becoming a | | | | popular academic format; Portable Document or |
| popular mode of disseminating all kinds of | | | | .pdf file format, created by Adobe System to |
| publications. Most of the information is | | | | provide a standard form for storing and editing |
| encapsulated as e-books, which are electronic or | | | | printed publishable documents; eReader, a |
| digital versions of printed books. The term e-book | | | | program for viewing Palm Digital Media electronic |
| is an individual work in a digital format or a | | | | books; DesktopAuthor, an electronic publishing |
| hardware device used to read books in a digital | | | | suite that allows creation of digital web books with |
| format. | | | | virtual turning pages. Digital web books can be |
| Online book publishers commonly bundle | | | | written in this format, including e-brochures, |
| information as e-books for distribution among | | | | e-books, digital photo albums, e-cards, digital |
| target users. Most of the e-books contain | | | | diaries, online resumes, quizzes, exams, tests, |
| metadata like printed books and includes details | | | | forms and surveys. |
| about author, title, publisher and copyright date. | | | | Online books undoubtedly score over the |
| Online books can also be published in a variety of | | | | traditional printed books as they are less |
| formats, keeping target readers in view and the | | | | cumbersome, distributed at a low cost, can be |
| type of work to be digitalized. Some of the | | | | formatted and copied easily, have less margin of |
| commonly used formats are image, used mainly | | | | error and give more editorial and authorial |
| for distributing comic books, art books or other | | | | freedom. However, online book publishing has its |
| visual works; rich text; hyper text markup | | | | own share of problems, as e-books can be easily |
| language or HTML, used mostly in web pages; | | | | hacked or disseminated without approval from |
| PostScript or .ps is a page description language | | | | the author or publisher. |
| used primarily in the electronic and desktop | | | | |