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Digital book updating and distributing method and system

A technology for digital books and distribution systems, which is applied in electronic digital data processing, data processing applications, special data processing applications, etc., and can solve the problem of updating and downloading of content that cannot be updated, wasting bandwidth and download time, and increasing the operating cost of publishers. problems, to achieve the effect of reducing network traffic, reducing bandwidth requirements, and reducing distribution costs

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-01-25
上海盛轩网络科技有限公司
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[0002] In the current field of digital book publishing, the copyright content of the author's digital book is generally distributed in PDF or EPUB format, but this traditional distribution method is very cumbersome, because if the author modifies the content of the digital book at any time or adds a new For the content, PDF and EPUB files must be regenerated and provided to readers for download. In order to read the updated part of the content, the reader must download the updated part of the content every time, and also download other non-updated content in the entire digital book every time. , this traditional distribution method cannot personalize the download content, nor can it update and download only the updated content
[0003] However, the field of digital publishing is about to face brand-new changes. The current network can already support authors to write online, and readers can buy and read the latest content at any time. The communication between authors and readers can occur throughout the writing process, and even readers can Participate in writing conception, thereby affecting the creative direction of the work, while the traditional e-book distribution method can only support submitting the complete content of the updated and unupdated parts of the entire digital book to readers every time. The distribution method will waste a lot of bandwidth and download time, and increase the operating costs of publishers

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[0045] The method and system for updating and distributing digital books proposed by the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

[0046] Such as figure 1 As shown, a digital book update distribution method includes:

[0047] In step S1, the author's client side modifies the existing digital book, and the server side marks the modified content to form a modification unit. Specifically, the existing digital book can be an unmodified digital book, or a digital book that has been modified to generate a modification unit and needs to be modified again. The author can modify the existing content in the old digital book on the author client Abridgement or modification can also be added, and the server will split the modified content of each position in the digital book into several authorized units. This split method is different from the traditional chapter division method. The content of ...

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The invention relates to a digital book updating and distributing method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: amending an existing digital book by an author client; marking the amended content by a server to form an amended unit; selecting to download all of or a part of the amended part by a reader client; and combining the downloaded amended unit and a local digital book to form a new digital book. In the invention, the amended content is marked by the server to form the amended unit, so that the reader client can subsequently and quickly select to downloaded all of or a part of the amended unit to form the new digital book; and thus, the existing content in the local digital book of the reader client is prevented from being repeatedly downloaded, the network flow is effectively reduced, the bandwidth requirement is reduced, and the issue cost of a publisher and reading cost of a reader are reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a technology for automatically updating and purchasing copyright content of book publishing through the Internet, in particular to a method and system for updating and distributing digital books. Background technique [0002] In the current field of digital book publishing, the copyright content of the author's digital book is generally distributed in PDF or EPUB format, but this traditional distribution method is very cumbersome, because if the author modifies the content of the digital book at any time or adds a new For the content, PDF and EPUB files must be regenerated and provided to readers for download. In order to read the updated part of the content, the reader must download the updated part of the content every time, and also download other non-updated content in the entire digital book every time. , this traditional distribution method cannot personalize the download content, nor can it update and download only the u...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30G06Q30/00
Inventor 龚正
Owner 上海盛轩网络科技有限公司
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