The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade association for digital publishing, has just announced a new technical standard for packaging a digital publication, including the contents of the publication, metadata, signatures, encryption, rights and other information into one standard file.

Entitled the Open eBook Publication Structure Container Format (OCF), the new IDPF standard is intended to streamline will allow publishers to release a single standard file into their sales and distribution channels and will also enable publishing for mobile devices.

The most BlackBerry-centric vendor solution to be announced fir OCF is the existing Mobipocket, which is owned by Amazon.com.

Mobipocket Reader / Mobipocket Creator will be the OCF-empowered platform. It claims an Implementation time frame in the first quarter of next year. It is compliant for BlackBerry as well as Windows Mobile, Symbian smartphones, and Palm OS devices, as well as Windows desktops and notebook PCs. as well as desktops and laptops (MS Windows). Product URL: