20140280402 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SLICING ELECTRONIC CONTENT AND COMBINING INTO NEW COMBINATIONS - Systems and methods for automatically splitting electronic content, for example, from books, magazines, journals, and other sources, to create new smaller ready-to-publish content parts, called slices, and recombining content parts from various sources to create new custom electronic book collections called Remixes. In a number of embodiments, content file splitting and custom book creation are automated so that it is easy for content owners of a reasonable technical skill level to quickly split existing electronic content files into ready-to-publish parts and to create custom ready-to-publish electronic content files composed of collections of existing content. In other embodiments, a member of the general public, end user, or consumer, can purchase those publisher-created parts and combine parts from various sources to create new custom electronic books. | 09-18-2014 |