Open eBook Publication Structure Specification History
August 2002 — OEBPS 1.2 Recommended Specification Released
The International Digital Publishing Forum Publication Structure Working Group released OEBPS Version 1.2. This new version is a tightly constrained update
to the prior version (OEBPS 1.0.1): it provides a great deal of new
functionality in the area of presentation control, including, among
other things, improvements in the Basic markup vocabulary (now a pure
subset of XHTML 1.1), and greatly expanded CSS support. Significant
effort and care was taken to maximize compatibility of this version
with existing OEBPS 1.0.1 content.
June 2001 — OEBPS 1.0.1 replaces OEBPS 1.0
The International Digital Publishing Forum Publication Structure Working Group released the
final 1.0.1 version of the Open eBook Publication Structure
specification. Version 1.0.1 of the OEB Publication Structure is not
meant to be a new specification. It does not add additional features to
the specification, but rather removes some ambiguities and corrects
errors. The changes made fall into one of three broad categories:
clarifications of ambiguities; correction of typographical errors; and
correction of other errors or inconsistencies. For more information see
Section 1.5.4 Compatibility, and Appendix E: Change History.)
September 1999 — OEBPS 1.0 released
The Open eBook (OEB) Authoring Group released the final 1.0 version of
the Open eBook Publication Structure specification. This specification
defines the format that content takes when it is converted from print
to electronic form.
The purpose of the International Digital Publishing Forum Publication Structure is to provide a
specification for representing the content of electronic books.
Specifically:
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The specification is intended to give content providers (e.g.,
publishers, and others who have content to be displayed) and tool
providers minimal and common guidelines which ensure fidelity,
accuracy, accessibility, and presentation of electronic content over
various electronic book platforms.
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The specification seeks to reflect established content format standards.
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The goal of this specification is to provide the purveyors of
electronic book content (publishers, agents, authors et al.) a format
for use in providing content to multiple reading systems.
This specification is based on the premise that in order for electronic
book technology to achieve widespread success in the marketplace,
reading systems must have convenient access to a large number and
variety of titles.
The specification is based on HTML and XML, the same core languages
that define the World Wide Web, and is designed to allow publishers and
authors to deliver their material in a single format.
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