A group that aims to promote electronic books (e-books) by defining a standard for their format. Under the name Open E-Book Publication Structure, the group of manufacturers known as the Open E-Book Authoring Group published the first standard of this kind in September 1999. It is designed to allow publishers to release their publications in a format that can be displayed by all e-book readers. The HTML and XML formatting languages are the technical basis for this specification.
OEB usually refers to the Open eBook Publication Structure specification. OEB 1.0 is the first specification developed by the OEBF. This specification for eBook file and format structure is based on HTML and XML, the languages used to create information for Web sites. Being XML-based, the aim of OEB is for the format to allow a publisher to publish an ebook once, which can be viewed on a wide variety of devices, such as PDAs, dedicated ebook devices, notepads and PCs.