In the publishing sector, e-books have been the hottest topic at least since 2009, even if multimedia has now come to be included under the keyword "enhanced e-books". In the USA, sales figures show that electronic books are picking up steadily. Technical documentation, too, is a field that is exploring the possibilities offered by e-books. "Technical" e-books are not sold, to be sure, as they are in the case of the conventional publishing industry, but the "tradition" of online help has been around for quite some time in this domain. E-books and their file formats thus extend the spectrum of the already existing formats.
If we consider online help, the question that arises is: What are e-books after all? Basically, the term refers to any book content that has been prepared for rendering and reading on a display. Here, the book contents could be any kind of text with a linear reading progression, possibly in combination with illustrations, tales of formulas, according to the current definition in the publishing industry.
Another definition could be: Content that is read on special technical devices. This probably brings us closer to a definition for technical documentation. However, this definition doesn’t take into account that e-books can be read on PCs and Notebooks as well, of course. The new class of reading devices are Tablet-PCs, Smartphones and the so-called e-readers. Various data formats can be read on these devices. All of these can render PDF, and most of them can also handle TXT, HTML and ...
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