Nyob rau hauv lub 90s, lub lag luam e-phau ntawv yog dominated los ntawm proprietary kev daws teeb meem. Thiab ntau e-nyeem ntawv manufacturers muaj lawv tus kheej hom. Piv txwv li, NuvoMedia siv cov ntaub ntawv nrog .rb txuas ntxiv. Cov no yog ntim nrog cov ntaub ntawv HTML thiab cov ntaub ntawv .info uas muaj cov ntaub ntawv metadata. Cov xwm txheej no nyuaj rau cov neeg tshaj tawm txoj haujlwm - lawv yuav tsum tau sau cov phau ntawv rau txhua hom ntawv sib cais. Ib pawg engineers los ntawm Microsoft, uas twb tau hais txog NuvoMedia thiab SoftBook Xovxwm tau lees paub los kho qhov xwm txheej.
Thaum lub sijhawm ntawd, Microsoft tab tom yuav kov yeej lub lag luam e-phau ntawv thiab tab tom tsim daim ntawv thov e-nyeem ntawv rau Windows 95. Peb tuaj yeem hais tias kev tsim cov qauv tshiab yog ib feem ntawm IT loj loj lub tswv yim ua lag luam.
Yog tias peb tham txog NuvoMedia, lub tuam txhab no suav hais tias yog cov chaw tsim khoom ntawm thawj tus nyeem ntawv hluav taws xob loj Rocket eBook. Lub cim xeeb sab hauv ntawm lub cuab yeej tsuas yog yim megabytes, thiab lub roj teeb lub neej tsis tshaj 40 teev. Raws li rau SoftBook Xovxwm, lawv kuj tau tsim cov ntawv nyeem hluav taws xob. Tab sis lawv cov khoom siv muaj qhov tshwj xeeb - lub modem built-in - nws tso cai rau koj rub tawm cov ntaub ntawv digital ncaj qha los ntawm SoftBookstore.
Thaum pib ntawm XNUMXs, ob lub tuam txhab - NuvoMedia thiab SoftBook - tau yuav los ntawm lub tuam txhab xov xwm Gemstar thiab koom ua ke rau hauv Gemstar eBook Group. Lub koom haum no txuas ntxiv muag cov neeg nyeem tau ntau xyoo (piv txwv li, RCA REB 1100) thiab cov phau ntawv digital, txawm li cas los xij hauv xyoo 2003 tau tawm ntawm kev lag luam.
Tab sis cia peb rov qab mus rau txoj kev loj hlob ntawm ib tus qauv. Xyoo 1999, Microsoft, NuvoMedia thiab SoftBook Xovxwm tau tsim lub Rooj Sib Tham Qhib eBook, uas tau pib ua haujlwm ntawm cov ntaub ntawv sau tseg uas cim qhov pib ntawm EPUB. Keeb kwm hu ua OEBPS (sawv rau Qhib EBook Tshaj Tawm Qauv). Nws ua rau nws muaj peev xwm faib cov ntawv tshaj tawm digital hauv ib cov ntaub ntawv (ZIP archive) thiab ua kom yooj yim rau kev hloov cov phau ntawv ntawm cov khoom siv sib txawv.
Tom qab ntawd, IT tuam txhab Adobe, IBM, HP, Nokia, Xerox thiab tshaj tawm McGraw Hill thiab Time Warner tau koom nrog Open eBook Forum. Ua ke lawv txuas ntxiv txhim kho OEBPS thiab txhim kho cov ntaub ntawv digital ecosystem tag nrho. Nyob rau hauv 2005, lub koom haum tau renamed lub International Forum for Digital Publishing, los yog IDPF.
Xyoo 2007, IDPF tau hloov lub npe ntawm OEBPS hom rau EPUB thiab pib tsim nws thib ob version. Nws tau nthuav tawm rau pej xeem hauv xyoo 2010. Cov khoom tshiab yuav luag tsis txawv ntawm nws cov thawj coj, txawm li cas los xij tau txais kev txhawb nqa vector graphics thiab built-in fonts.
Los ntawm lub sijhawm no, EPUB tau dhau los ua lag luam thiab dhau los ua tus qauv qub rau ntau tus tshaj tawm thiab cov khoom siv hluav taws xob. Cov hom ntawv twb tau siv los ntawm O'Reilly thiab Cisco Xovxwm, ntxiv rau nws tau txais kev txhawb nqa los ntawm Apple, Sony, Barnes & Noble, thiab ONYX BOOX li.
Xyoo 2009, Google Books project tshaj tawm txog EPUB kev txhawb nqa - nws tau siv los faib ntau tshaj li ib lab phau ntawv pub dawb. Hom ntawv tau pib muaj koob meej ntawm cov kws sau ntawv. Xyoo 2011, JK Rowling hais txog kev npaj tso lub vev xaib Pottermore thiab ua kom nws tsuas yog qhov muag ntawm Potter cov phau ntawv hauv cov ntawv digital.
EPUB tau raug xaiv los ua tus qauv rau kev faib cov ntaub ntawv, feem ntau vim nws muaj peev xwm los siv kev tiv thaiv luam (DRM). Tag nrho cov ntaub ntawv nyob rau hauv tus kws sau ntawv lub khw online kom deb li deb tsuas muaj nyob rau hauv hom ntawv no.
Qhov thib peb version ntawm EPUB hom tau tso tawm nyob rau hauv 2011. Cov neeg tsim khoom tau ntxiv lub peev xwm los ua haujlwm nrog cov ntaub ntawv audio thiab video thiab cov lus hauv qab. Niaj hnub no tus qauv txuas ntxiv mus - hauv 2017 IDPF txawm tuaj hauv ib feem ntawm W3C consortium, uas siv cov txheej txheem thev naus laus zis rau World Wide Web.
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Ib phau ntawv hauv EPUB hom ntawv yog ZIP archive. Nws khaws cov ntawv ntawm kev tshaj tawm hauv daim ntawv XHTML lossis HTML nplooj ntawv lossis PDF cov ntaub ntawv. Cov ntaub ntawv tseem muaj cov ntsiab lus tawm (suab, yees duab lossis duab), fonts thiab metadata. Nws kuj tseem yuav muaj cov ntaub ntawv ntxiv nrog CSS hom lossis Pls-cov ntaub ntawv nrog cov ntaub ntawv rau cov kev pabcuam tsim kev hais lus.
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<p>What does it mean to be human if we don't have a shared culture? What
does a shared culture mean if we can't share it? It's only in the last
100, or 150 years or so, that we started tightly restricting how that
culture gets used.</p>
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