A scholarly electronic publishing of quality not sight to the profit but to the circulation of the ideas. The strategy to adopt also for the distribution of electronic books is that one, parallel to the Open Source for the software, of the Open Content, in compliance with the licence Creative Commons with at least two relative restrictions: not to make derivative works of the text and not to make commercial use of the work outside of the channel of distribution controlled from the publisher. It cannot however be thought that an electronic book is bound to a format owner and one determined technological platform: the future is that one of a flexible system that guarantees the usability and full accessibility of the contents in the time.