What’s New
According to WebWare/CNET, Amazon’s new Kindle, the electronic book reader, works best with html that is formatted using simple html— Digital Text Platform DTP. It’s a win-win for authors who want to publish their books because not only will they receive revenue from Amazon but they will also retain their right to print their book at a later date.
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Web books formatted in html websites are very different than other electronic publishing, e.g. PDF ebooks which are typically more suitable for printing. View a sample web book or a comparison between web books and other forms of electronic publishing.

Custom Web Books specializes in the electronic publishing of web-based books in html. Similar to Wikipedia, books published in html websites allow access to your book worldwide, either as open content or a subscription-based site. Our web books are designed to allow visitors to locate information quickly and easily, add future updates, and promote your book in search engines.

Our web book html sites are developed using a custom comprehensive approach goes well beyond design and technology and include

• content strategy (prioritizing content)
• content display/format for the way visitors read on the web
• variety of methods to search or browse for information
• intuitive navigation
• usability (user-friendly)
• information architecture (information design)
• search engine information
• accessibility for people with disabilities (required by law)

We build web book sites for research, education, government, textbooks, monographs, manuals, archives, regulations, non-fiction, fiction—any large content.

Other Book/Content Initiatives

• Amazon’s new electronic book reader, the Kindle.
• Wikipedia is a web-based, free content encyclopedia.

• Wikibooks are a collection of free textbooks on a website.

• The Internet Archive is developing repositories of online books that provide open access; projects include the Million Book Project, American Libraries, Canadian Libraries, Open Source Books, and Project Gutenberg. Internet Archive

• MIT and other universities around the world are providing Opencourseware, a free and open educational resource for educators, students and self-learners. MIT Opencourseware

• Google has developed Google Scholar beta, Google Book Search, a proprietary technology for scanning books, and the Google Books Library Project with an online "card catalog" to help people find information. Jan 2007: Recent news from Google and book publishers