You may have seen our recent news items covering how you can now create epub files from both your PDF files and online content (your blog or RSS feeds for example) with the 3D Issue software. We’ve been speaking with more customers this last few days about different types of publications they are creating using these features so here are some of the favourite eBooks you can start creating today. You can create in minutes and give to your customers to download to view on their iPads/iPhones via the iBooks App.
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4 eBooks in epub format for viewing in iBooks you can create today
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Add an App style icon for your publication, then change the content not the icon.
As we blogged about last week there are many benefits to developing App style publications for your readers i.e. A publication intended for consumption on an iOS device (iPad or iPhone) or other tablet device which can run on your device without any need to download from the Android Market place or the Apple App store.
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Create iPad magazines in a tick!
Each day we speak with business across the world regarding creating digital publications for their audience. There has been an increase in mobile friendly publications over the last few years as a result of the explosion in popularity of mobile devices including the iPad. So here we thought we’d answer a few of the top questions we get asked about creating iPad magazines and share with you…
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Digital Publishing News Round-up
It’s that time again! Once a month we release our digital publishing newsletter. This aims to keep you up to date with the latest tips, trends and goings on in the world of digital magazines and marketing.
Highlights this month:
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TV Company to break into books
NBC are to move into digital publishing as this story reports from Wired today reported from the tech gurus here.
Some of the reasoning behind the move tie in with some of the issues and topics we’ve been writing about here at 3D issue like making the most of your older content for example and always designing with the audience in mind – not just conversion….
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Textbooks in ebook format to reduce prices?
Apple’s latest project namely iBooks 2 and the ability to purchase cut price text books has been cited as the potential savior for students and schools alike, students get cheaper text books in digital format that cost less and are easy to carry with many starting from $14.99 as opposed to hard copy editions costing multiples of that figure.
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How to analyze your digital magazine reader statistics
Once your digital publication is online and published it’s vital that you look into the stats and track how successful the edition is. How is the magazine performing? Is it attracting the right person/your target audience? Without tracking and analysing the performance it will be difficult for you to make the necessary adjustments to future editions to improve performance and reader satisfaction.
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Digital Book World, POD and more
Digital Book World is taking place right now in New York and its probably worth checking out some of the key note speeches taking place and the debates that will be carried on at the conference.
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Create, open and share or sell ePubs
Big news this week on the Apple front as is now becoming the norm for Apple with their early New Year conferences. Two big deals; the announcement of the iBooks 2 App now available for download from the US App store and the announcement of Apple iBook Author software which complements the announcement of the new iBooks 2 App.
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Digital Publications – Part 1 Beginners guide to output formats
iBooks, ePubs, digital magazines…what does it all mean and what are the differences? This is a question we are frequently asked, there are now a growing number of terms being used around digital publishing, which if you are looking at publishing your content into a digital form could be confusing to know which option and or route is best for you.
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