1.5 Net Books - What are they? How have they developed?

THE TEXT FILE

·         Only has text

·         Very easy to create

·         Can only scroll up and down, no hyperlinks

·         Can use on all devices

 

WORD/RTF

·         Can include text files, pictures, colours and graphs

·         Can use hyperlinks to navigate as well as scrolling

·         Only available on windows and apple devices

 

ADOBE ACROBAT

·         a document file created to look like the original

·         the most popular E-book

·         uses hyperlinks and scrolling to navigate

·         all most everything

 

HTML/ XHTML

·         easy to create and embed

·         all types of navigation

·         almost everything can use thgis type of E-book

 

MICROSOFT READER

·         reads like a book clear type technology  which makes for high quality

·         can only be open on windows and a pocket PC

·         uses scrolling techniques and bookmarks to navigate

 

PALM READER

·         an encrypted streaming text format based on XML that assembles output to a screen page at a time

·         typical scrolling and bookmark navigation setup

·         only available on palm PDAs and the pocket PC