Dynamic eBook Services
Transforming rich graphic books from PDF to reflowable EPUB 3
EPUB 3 is becoming the international standard for the distribution of documents to digital devices. Its main advantage is the content's capacity to smoothly change and adapt to different screen sizes.
Even though there aren't that many EPUB 3 compliant eReading platforms yet, it is wise to start considering this format as your primary choice when digitizing your rich graphics books:
- A few significant eBook distribution platforms will become compliant by the summer 2012.
- The data model of EPUB 3 is the most suitable format for fallback to other eBook formats.
This latter point is even reinforced when enrolling with Publiwide services as the technology used will generate a pivot XML format that will ease up the conversion to other eBook formats.
Specializing in the transformation of rich graphic books
The titles that fall into this category are complex layout books featuring non-linear formatting like two-columns layouts, embedded figures or lists. Those titles stand out due to the richness of their content represented by graphs, tables, images, special characters, mathematics formulas, footnotes or foreign languages symbols.
Rich graphic books?
Textbooks, scholar manuals, business books, workbooks, study guides, Scientific Technical Medical (STM) titles, travel guides, …
Added value service
Tagging and conversion, cost per page: not only will the book be converted to an EPUB 3 file, but it will also be semantically tagged and saved in a pivot XML format. Furthermore, we include the following features: Image integration, Live link Table of Content, Live link footnotes, Live link glossary, Mapping of special characters, EPUB 3 check.
Redesign and CSS customization: we either assign a few hours to adapt the original style of the book to the dynamic eBook or you can benefit from a dedicated template.
Coding of interactive functions for images, formulas, tables resampling.
Multimedia integration: insertion of video, audio, animations into the eBook.
Significant differentiators
- Reliable technologies are used to convert texts from the original document automatically. No manual type settings. 99.9% error-free characters conversion.
- 2 outcomes: EPUB 3 file and XML pivot-format.
- Formulas, special characters transformed as dynamic, searchable information.
A fully managed service
From the reception of your document as a PDF file to the delivery of the final EPUB 3 compliant format, with the integration of multimedia assets and the customization of the original styles.
Deliverables:
» EPUB 3 as a reflowable file.
» EPUB 3 as fixed layout (for iBooks).
Costs and pricing
Key criteria ruling the breakdown of cost for the service:
» Number of pages.
» Number of graphics, images you want to emphasize on.
» Number of rich media to be integrated.
» Styles and layout customization.
We don't publicly disclose prices. Contact us by e-mail for estimates and samples' policy.
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