Patent ID: 7631013

Claim:
A method for displaying electronic books on a device comprising random access memory, central processor unit, and system software, the method comprising: representing a published electronic content in an interactive book format including interactive book format objects, the interactive book format objects including a book object, the book object including a copyright for the published electronic content; wherein the published electronic content is retrieved using a software system for interpreting the interactive book format objects; wherein the retrieved published electronic content is displayed to a reader on a display media, the display media utilizing pins to display the retrieved published electronic content in Braille; wherein the copyright protects dimensions, cover, international standard book number or European article number or library of Congress number, formatting, specification, and content per page of the published electronic content, the copyright protecting the interactive book format objects; wherein the published electronic content is protected by the copyright while being distributed either by collecting the interactive book format objects into a contiguous file or as one or more of the interactive book format objects sent across a network using a communication protocol; wherein after retrieving the published electronic content from the interactive book format objects, display of the published electronic content is independent of the interactive book format specification, while adhering to the formatting and desired presentation of a publisher; wherein the published electronic content is stored in a relational database residing in computer memory by using the software system, or on a storage media, and wherein the relational database is embedded within the software system; and wherein the relational database stores, for each paragraph of the published electronic content, a format object and a list of images attached to the each paragraph and wherein the format object and the list of images are used to recreate an original visual presentation and an original artwork associated with the published electronic content.