Description

This paper presents the necessity and direction of a standard for representing contents of electronic books (eBooks). To
identify the current problems of content formats, as a case study, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Open
eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) in terms of functional aspects as well as critical
standardization issues such as interoperability, openness, applicability, and extensibility. Particularly, this paper suggests an
Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based improvement of the OEB format as a standard. This paper also describes that PDF
can be used together for different aspects of publishing process.