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

For the rapid development of internet technologies, using internet-accessed devices for online 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 eBook 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. Keywords— e-Book, cloud-based SaaS, architecture