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Originally Posted by JohannesM
Some interactivity doesn't work that well when reading pdf in ibooks for instance. Simple things like showing-hiding elements on click etc. For example showing and hiding answers of a maths exercise. Hyperlinks do work though.
It's looks like everything is a little imperfect - pdf would work well for simple displaying but fxl epub3 is more programmable for interactivity.
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Stupid question:
Are you ONLY making an ePUB of this? Your client thinks that he'll be able to dictate that everybody has to have an iPad, only, for the classroom--is that the idea?
Jhowell wrote:
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Amazon only accepts specific types of books (children's books and comics) in fixed layout, not textbooks.
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Well, that's not quite right--you can use Textbook format, for fxl textbooks, which is, effectively, print replica.
I keep running into this "idea," for lack of a better word (delusion?) that somehow, teachers are going to have this Apple-dominated wee world, where EVERYBODY is going to have an iPad, so, that's how they're going to make the "textbooks." I guess it's not dramatically different than expecting kids to buy textbooks, but at a thou-plus a pop, it's not QUITE the same. I know that I'd be pretty damn pissed if some prof "decided" that my kid needed a thousand dollar
toy.
Spoiler:
And before everybody leaps to defend iPads, they are CLEARLY a tool for consumption, not really creation. I have one, for testing purposes,
and sure, it's nice, but I most certainly don't use it for any type of actual work. Yes, yes, I know, some people attach keyboards to them, etc.,
but the vast majority of real, live people that I see out in the wild are watching movies, playing games, reading social media, etc.
Hitch