An Architecture for Cloud-based e-Book Software-as-a-Service

摘要

For the rapid development of internet technologies, using internet-accessed devices for on-line reading has become a must part of everyone's day life. Among all attractive readings, e-Book is receiving more attentions in recent years for benefiting on-line readers; two typical e-Book services can be found from Amazon and Google e-Book stores. However, some desirable features for more satisfying reader needs are still not supported well in these existing services such as recognition & comparison of desired e-Books and collaboration & communication in e-Book communities. To address this issue, we present in this paper a cloud-based architecture for such desirable e-Book services (i.e., cloud-based e-Book SaaS). The architecture is identified from the consideration of e-Book and cloud-based SaaS characteristics, through the recognition of the architectural components that support the employment of SaaS into e-Book, and finally ends with the deployment of these architectural components on the elements in realistic clouds for the realization of the desirable e-Book SaaS.