FAQ - e-Book & Audio Book File formats
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Audio books are available for download in MP3 format. MP3 is an audio file format, based on MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) technology. It creates very small files suitable for streaming or downloading over the Internet
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E-Books are available for download at our website in all these popular formats.
Portable Document Format
Format:Adobe Portable Document Format.
Published as:.pdf
PDF documents can easily be viewed and printed by users on a variety of computer platforms, they are very common on the World Wide Web. The specification of the format is available without charge from Adobe. PDF files are supported on the following e-book readers: Mobipocket, iRex iLiad, iRex DR1000, Sony Reader, Bookeen Cybook, Foxit eSlick, Amazon Kindle (1, 2, International & DX), Barnes & Noble Nook, the iPad, PocketBook Reader, Bebook Neo and the Kobo eReader.
If you do not have it installed in your PC, click here (Adobe Reader Free Download)
Mobipocket
Format:Mobipocket
Published as:.prc; .mobi
The reader has a full screen mode for reading and support for many PDAs, Communicators, and Smartphones. Mobipocket products support most Windows, Symbian, BlackBerry and Palm operating systems. Using WINE, the reader works under Linux or Mac OS X. Third-party applications like Okular and FBReader can also be used under Linux or Mac OS X, but they work only with unencrypted files. The Amazon Kindle's AZW format is basically just the Mobipocket format with a slightly different serial number scheme.
EPUB
Format:IDPF/EPUB
Published as:.epub
Currently, the format can be read by the Kobo eReader, Apple iBooks, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (with firmware v. 2 and up),COOL-ER, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton, AZARDI, Aldiko and WordPlayer on Android and the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader. Several other reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as dotReader, FBReader, Mobipocket, uBook and Okular. Another software .epub reader, Lucidor, is in beta.
Download the Adobe Digital Editions for free to view EPUB formats.
Plain text files
Format:text
Published as:.txt
E-books in plain text exist and are very small in size. The ASCII standard allows ASCII-only text files (unlike most other file types) to be interchanged and readable on Unix, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and other systems.
Rich Text Format
Format:Rich textPublished as:.rtf
The Rich Text Format was developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange. RTF can be used on some ebook readers because of its interoperability, simplicity, and low CPU processing requirements, and some devices, including BeBook, work best with this format
For a detaled understanding of e-book formats and software / hardware compatability go to Wikipedia
Portable Document Format
Format:Adobe Portable Document Format.
Published as:.pdf
PDF documents can easily be viewed and printed by users on a variety of computer platforms, they are very common on the World Wide Web. The specification of the format is available without charge from Adobe. PDF files are supported on the following e-book readers: Mobipocket, iRex iLiad, iRex DR1000, Sony Reader, Bookeen Cybook, Foxit eSlick, Amazon Kindle (1, 2, International & DX), Barnes & Noble Nook, the iPad, PocketBook Reader, Bebook Neo and the Kobo eReader.
If you do not have it installed in your PC, click here (Adobe Reader Free Download)
Mobipocket
Format:Mobipocket
Published as:.prc; .mobi
The reader has a full screen mode for reading and support for many PDAs, Communicators, and Smartphones. Mobipocket products support most Windows, Symbian, BlackBerry and Palm operating systems. Using WINE, the reader works under Linux or Mac OS X. Third-party applications like Okular and FBReader can also be used under Linux or Mac OS X, but they work only with unencrypted files. The Amazon Kindle's AZW format is basically just the Mobipocket format with a slightly different serial number scheme.
EPUB
Format:IDPF/EPUB
Published as:.epub
Currently, the format can be read by the Kobo eReader, Apple iBooks, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (with firmware v. 2 and up),COOL-ER, Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton, AZARDI, Aldiko and WordPlayer on Android and the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader. Several other reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as dotReader, FBReader, Mobipocket, uBook and Okular. Another software .epub reader, Lucidor, is in beta.
Download the Adobe Digital Editions for free to view EPUB formats.
Plain text files
Format:text
Published as:.txt
E-books in plain text exist and are very small in size. The ASCII standard allows ASCII-only text files (unlike most other file types) to be interchanged and readable on Unix, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and other systems.
Rich Text Format
Format:Rich textPublished as:.rtf
The Rich Text Format was developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange. RTF can be used on some ebook readers because of its interoperability, simplicity, and low CPU processing requirements, and some devices, including BeBook, work best with this format
For a detaled understanding of e-book formats and software / hardware compatability go to Wikipedia
What are ZIP files How do I extract them
The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. If you do not have programs (like Winzip) to extract files from a zip file, go to Peazip.org which is a free Open Source file and archive manager program that I use.
The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. If you do not have programs (like Winzip) to extract files from a zip file, go to Peazip.org which is a free Open Source file and archive manager program that I use.
