Any text directly describing or related to an image.
A group of books of similar genre, form, or readership, gathered together for sales and marketing purposes: e.g., modern fiction, bestsellers. A category is not necessarily a genre, since it isn’t always content-based.
Shorter sections that logically divide a book-length work.
Quote at the beginning of a chapter.
All the elements making up the beginning of a chapter, before the main text of the book begins again. This can include chapter titles, numbers, epigraphs, illustrations, etc.
The chapter's identifier in the sequence of chapters.
The chapter's title.
Display technology that makes digital fonts dramatically more readable, using existing font technology and hardware. For more information, see the Open eBooks Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/cleartype.
Inscription at the end of a book with information relative to its production: fonts, size, paper, printers, etc., can all be part of this. Occasionally colophon is used to mean the publisher logo.
The matter contained in a book.
The individual or organization that supplies the original content for an eBook or paper book. The content supplier can be an author or other creator, publisher, or packager.
The process of changing material from one form to another.
Legally required statement of who owns what rights in the book.
The elements required for the core reading experience: the book at its most streamlined. This always includes the author, title, and text; and occasionally includes illustrations or other elements.
The trancelike experience a reader has when she plunges into a book and finds herself immersed in the story or content, without sidetracks or delays caused by things like footnotes and forewords. This is the linear book experience cut to its essential bones: the title, author, and body.
Art or graphic presentation used on the paper book’s cover to attract attention and set expectations for the book’s content.
The text on the front and back cover and spine of a (paperback) book.
The printed cover or jacket of a paper book, unfolded, used as a marketing tool.
The author or other individual or group responsible for generating or supplying content of a book.
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