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Originally Posted by uieluck
I've been doing ebooks for about 3 years meow. I've done some mild 'difficult' formatting; sidebars, background images, sanskrit fonts, images etc. etc. However, my coding skills have gotten soooo much better (php, xml, css, xhtml) And I can make simple apps... and I mean simple. However, I want to learn and produce: digital book apps. Has anybody on here done this? And on queue my job wants me to produce a mega complex book (oics attached). Should I attempt something different than an epub/ebook? These are EXACTLY what I'm looking to do:
http://www.oceanhousemedia.com/products/drseuss/
Or this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bat...23432721?mt=11
Ideas?
Thanks, uieluck |
Well, the A&E book is simply an ePUB, using ePUB3, I'd guess; it looks like it has embedded audio. That can be done with any ePUB, if you just make it for iBooks. If you're making it for anyone else, you're mostly out of luck, as almost nothing, device-wise (which means, big sales-wise) supports embedded audio/video.
The Seuss books are apps. {shrug}. They could be anything at all, anything that will work on an i-Device. I didn't see any available for Droid or the KFire.
Really, the thing you have to ask yourself is, how much can you earn; how much will people PAY to do book apps (trust me--it's not much, unless they're utterly deluded about their sales), and now much do you want to do it? The only place you
tend to have big app sales is on the Apple platforms, and it's very unclear to me that books--just books--sell very well on any iTunes-based platform at all. This isn't to disparage Apple fans; but the way the devices are structured, perform and are marketed seem to be oriented toward movies and the like. And there are a number of children's book apps makers out there, along with some DIY book-app-making sites, as well. (You should look into those before you go much further).
Many people thought that the "Immersedition" book was going to knock it out of the park, but I haven't heard a word about that book--or the technology or the company that made it--since it splashed on the scene about a year or so back.
Now, having said that, I have a client that sold 90,000 children's bibles in an app. So....who knows?
Hitch