Glossary of ePublishing Terms

I'll add more on to this as time goes on:

DRM - "Digital Rights Management" or to put it another way, copy protection.

eBook - an electronic book, in some sort of digital format that you can download. Some ebooks are DRM'ed and some are not.

POD - see Print On Demand.

Print on Demand - book is kept in digital format until it is ordered, then it is downloaded to a machine that prints and then binds the book, one copy at a time to order. These are usually trade paperback sized books.

ebook format - one of a number of formats which require proprietary software to read. PDF seems to be the most popular and requires Adobe Reader software to read.