First, a little background. OPDS is an ebook transfer standard. Technically it will work with any type of electronic publications, but in this case we only care about using it to download Epub ebooks from various ebookstores and free ebook sites. For example, Fictionwise support the standard, and so do Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, Munsey’s, and [...]
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Did you know Baen’s Webscriptions supported OPDS?
January 11th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
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OPDS standard achieves v1.0
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the OPDS dev group blog: The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on [...]
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Call for comments: OPDS v0.9 draft
May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
First, what is OPDS? Let me give you the 2 highest profile examples. Look at Stanza (on the iPhone) or Aldiko (on Android). From inside each app you can access any number of sites: Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, etc. The reason you can do this is OPDS. It’s a communication standard that both the apps and [...]
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