Patent ID: 6493734
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system to distribute electronic publications, comprising:a document development platform to generate an electronic (ebook) book binary file from one or more source files describing a reading material, the ebook binary file including a plurality of book views, each of the plurality of book views including information needed to generate a plurality of page display images representing content of the reading material in a font having a particular font point size, wherein a first book view and a second book view in the plurality of book views include information needed to generate a plurality of page display images representing identical content of the reading material, wherein at least a portion of the information needed to generate the plurality of page display images representing identical content in the first book view is generated by the document development platform based on the font having the particular font point size associated with the first book view, and at least a portion of the information needed to generate the plurality of page display images representing identical content in the second book view is generated by the document development platform based on the font having the particular font point size associated with the second book view; and an electronic book in communication with the document development platform to receive the ebook binary file, the electronic book parsing the ebook binary file and generating the page display images.