부산대학교 도서관

An electronic book is shortly denoted as e-book that consists of file format for personal computers, hardware devices, portable devices and Operating systems. It represents the ideal print book publication structure, classical content formatting, and its metaphor in digital editions. It includes text, image, sound and motion picture as main integral content. Academic print publications are massively available in various digital versions on internet at present. Still, there are numerously required for transferring academic course book, prescribed textbooks, student notes in open, extensible and personalization forms. This paper develops the concrete ideas about e-book in terms of open e-book publication which are consisting the XML-based standards for extensibility and personalization. These features are reported with the release of standards into academic course book publishing. Statistical analysis indicated that the students are being helped by implementing open e-book structure into their curriculum design. Furthermore, it is providing the students to create their personal learning environment on intranet and internet.