Types
Big Names
Writing Online
Parts of a Book
Selling It
100
This shortened term for "electronic
publication" is the official standard of
the International Digital Publishing
Forum (IDPF).
What is EPUB?
100
This author debuted the first mass market eBook online in 2000, which reached at least 400,000 downloads and crashed computers due to format issues.
Who is Stephen King?
100
These are juxtaposed graphic panels, often accompanied by descriptive prose, written narrative, usually, and dialogue contained in word balloons, that are published on a website or mobile app.
What are webcomics?
100
This brand of e-paper display technology was created at MIT. It operates similarly to an Etch-a-Sketch.
What is electronic ink (E-INK)?
100
Digital Rights Management (DRM) tools and technologies provide protection for these.
copyrighted and proprietary materials
200
This file type was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until 2008. It is now one of the most popular e-publication formats and can be created specifically to be accessible.
What is portable document format (PDF)?
200
This controversial social media platform, described by McNeil as an "ant farm of humanity," launched in 2004 and has been criticized for, among other issues, its approaches to user privacy, misinformation, and data sharing.
What is Facebook?
200
This early web hosting service was one of the first places for everyday users to create, publish, and browse personal websites. It was acquired by Yahoo in 1999, and closed in 2009. Many of the sites are now archived, meaning you can still access photos of people's dogs from the late 1990s.
What is Geocities?
200
This type of software creates layouts of text and media files for publishing in print or digital formats. Examples include Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word.
What is Desktop Publishing Software (DPS)?
200
This term describes what separates one product from another: why the product is considered superior and more valuable than another.
What is a Unique Selling Point (USP)?
300
This standard markup language for
creating web pages is currently in
release 5.2.
What is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)?
300
In 1971, this was the first manuscript digitized by Project Gutenberg.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
These platforms display information in reverse chronological order. They are often written in a diary-style format and do not require technical experience to create.
What is a blog?
300
This markup language is used to structure data for storage and transport. It represents the text and structure of the content document and can act as the "binding" for an electronic book.
What is XML (Extensible Markup Language)?
300
This term refers to utilizing multiple media forms to tell a single narrative.
What is transmedia?
400
This language describes the presentation of markup languages, such as HTML. It can be adapted to different types of devices and allows for multiple pages to have the same design applied to them.
What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?
400
This English computer scientist is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Who is Sir Tim Berners Lee?
400
These types of browser-based online editors do not require users to have knowledge of markup languages. They present a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" (WYSIWYG) editing area.
What are Rich Text Editors (RTEs)?
400
In this EPUB layout, the alignment remains the same across screen sizes. It is useful for image-heavy pubs, such as comic books
What is fixed layout?
400
These are freely available, open licensed, digitally published materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and assessment.
What is an Open Educational Resource (OER)?
500
Current Kindle formats are based on this, which is one of the most widely used ebook file formats. It is designed specifically for mobile devices with low bandwidth.
What is MOBI?
500
This technology company, whose motto was "Don't be evil," used a 411 information service to train a speech-to-text recognition system.
What is Google?
500
This digital storytelling technique, used by data journalism platforms like The Pudding, shows new or changing content as people scroll through the web page.
What is scrollytelling?
500
Prior to the development of digital color printing and computer-to-plate technology, this process was handled by separate machines like the Intertype Fotosetter. 
What is typesetting (or formatting)?
500
This type of license is selected by a creator and gives people the right to share, use, and build upon a work in ways that the creator approves.
Creative Commons