HTML ebook format introduction and related free HTML converter software downloads.

HTML Format Introduction:

Hypertext Markup Language file extension name can be *.htm or *.html. HTML is the markup language used for most web pages. Ebooks using HTML can be read using a Web browser. The specifications for the format are available without charge from the W3C.

HTML adds specially marked meta-elements to otherwise plain text encoded using character sets like ASCII or UTF-8. As such, suitably formatted files can be, and sometimes are, generated by hand using a plain text editor or programmer's editor. Many HTML generator applications exist to ease this process and often require less intricate knowledge of the format details involved.

HTML on its own is not a particularly efficient format to store information in, requiring more storage space for a given work than many other formats. However, several ebook formats including the Amazon Kindle, Open eBook, Compiled HTML, Mobipocket and EPUB store each book chapter in HTML format, then use ZIP compression to compress the HTML data, images, metadata and style sheets into a single, significantly smaller, file.

HTML files encompass a wide range of standards and displaying HTML files correctly can be complicated. Additionally many of the features supported, such as forms, are not relevant to ebooks.

See also: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Free HTML Converter Software:

Our free HTML converter software supports converting from HTML, doesn't support converting to HTML.

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Free HTML to PDF Converter is a free and easy-to-use PDF converter software to batch convert website, HTML, XML and text to PDF document.

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