EB2000: a structured approach to the creation of e-books

Taking into account that the new capabilities of modern e-book readers can manage a lot of media suck as audio, video and allow an excellent interaction with the user than could add a comments or bookmarks, activate applet such as test or example in a educational e-book, the e-book could be considered as a real hypermedia document with strong interaction with its reader. Until now, unfortunately, the e-book has been seen as a transposition of the paper model onto a digital one, aiming to reduce the time and costs of distribution; thus the author has no incentive to rethink the content for the potential offered by the electronic medium. The task is no longer to provide a form of mediation between digital support and traditional book, but to reinterpret the modalities of spread of knowledge. Here we present an attempt, using W2000 methodology to arrive at a structured approach to design that place the authors at the center of the process. Using this analysis we present EB2000, a new Web-based authoring tool in which the authors can create specific e-book content, cooperate with other author or third parties for multimedia content, and to publishing the complete e-book in standard format.