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The other common proprietary ebook format which you're likely to stumble across is IBA. It is the format used for books created in Apple's iBooks Author app. Technically, the format is very similar to EPUB. However, it relies on custom widget code in the Apple Books app to function and thus cannot be universally read on all e-readers.
Remember, this format is only used for books written in iBooks Author. The last major ebook format in circulation is PDF. Because of the format's widespread adoption around the web, PDFs have become a popular way of delivering ebooks. Its big downside is the lack of native reflowing. Reflowing is the term used to describe when a file can adapt its presentation according to the size of the screen or the settings a user selected. All the dedicated ebook formats offer reflowing based on the sequence of objects in the content-stream.
The PDF format can circumnavigate the lack of regular reflowing by using tags to define the underlying structure of a document. However, tagged PDFs are still not well supported by ebook readers. On the positive side, it's only the second format on the list that's open standard; it became ISO back in They were proprietary formats that Sony created for use on its own range of ebook readers. It is common among ebook collectors thanks to its ability to store metadata within the ebook file itself.
It also heavily used as a storage format due to the ease with which it can be converted into other formats. DJVU is popular in the scientific community. It boasts a compression that's approximately 10 times better than PDF; it can store more than black and white scans in less than a megabyte. Note: You can reduce the size of a PDF with a few compression tricks.
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