Software wanted for creating emagazines

[thedevilmaycry]

Hello everybody,
I am looking for a software with which I can create rich media emagazines and ebooks. Anybody has a hint?
Thanks in advance.

 

[bmcgonag]

Hello everybody,
I am looking for a software with which I can create rich media emagazines and ebooks. Anybody has a hint?
Thanks in advance.

Can you describe a little more about what you're wanting to do? Are you wanting this for display on web only, or for e-readers like Kindle, or with other specific apps?

For web only, you could try a CMS (Content Management System) that allows you to really get in and cusomize the look and feel of the site, as well as easily update your content when the site customization is complete.

Sorry if I'm off track here.

 

[thedevilmaycry]

Hello
actually I intend doing both (maybe with a focus on ebook readers and the soon coming iSlate/ iTablet or whatever it might be called).
My intention is to rework (printed) brochures and corporate magazines, convert them into emagazines and add some interaction possibilities (movies, sound, etc). Preferably I end up with one file that can be read on Kindle or the iSlate and/or be sent via email. Any idea?
Thank you.

 

[bmcgonag]

Hello
actually I intend doing both (maybe with a focus on ebook readers and the soon coming iSlate/ iTablet or whatever it might be called).
My intention is to rework (printed) brochures and corporate magazines, convert them into emagazines and add some interaction possibilities (movies, sound, etc). Preferably I end up with one file that can be read on Kindle or the iSlate and/or be sent via email. Any idea?
Thank you.

I wish I did. I really haven't gotten into that side of the sfotware scene. I couldn't even tell you what format the ebooks and emagazines that are delivered on specific devices are in.

But I found this here about the Kindle...I would hope that Apple's potential new device would hanlde PDF just fine as well as the EPUB mentioned in the article section below.

This is from the Kindle Wikipedia entry:

The original Kindle supported only unprotected Mobipocket books (MOBI, PRC), plain text files (TXT), topaz format books (.tpz), and Amazon's proprietary DRM-restricted format (AZW). Version 2.3 firmware upgrade for Kindle 2 (U.S. and International) added native PDF support.[18] Earlier versions did not fully support Portable Document Format (PDF), but Amazon provided "experimental" conversion to the native AZW format,[33] with the caveat that not all PDFs may format correctly.[34] It does not support the EPUB ebook standard. Amazon offers an email-based service that will convert JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP graphics to AZW.[35] Amazon will also convert HTML pages and Microsoft Word (DOC) documents through the same email-based mechanism, which will send a Kindle-formatted file to the device directly for $0.15 per MB or to a personal e-mail account for free. These services can be accessed by sending emails to <kindleusername>@kindle.com and to <kindleusername>@free.kindle.com for Whispernet-delivered and free email-delivered file conversion, respectively. The file that the user wants to be converted needs to be attached to these emails. Users could also convert PDF and other files to the first-generation Kindle's supported formats using third-party software. The original Kindle supported audio in the form of MP3s and Audible audiobooks (versions 2, 3 and 4), which had to be transferred to the Kindle via USB or on an SD card.

Initially, Kindle 1 only supported the ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) character set for its content; Unicode characters and non-Western characters were not supported. A firmware update in February 2009 added support for additional character sets, including ISO 8859-16.

Kindle 2 added support for Audible Enhanced (AAX) format, but dropped support for Audible versions 2 and 3. Using the experimental web browser, it was possible to download books directly on the Kindle (in MOBI, PRC and TXT formats only). Hyperlinks in a Mobipocket file could be used to download e-books[36] but could not be used to reference books stored in the Kindle's memory. Kindle DX added native support for PDF files.

Maybe that will help...and it looks like PDF is now supported, and with apple, you can preety much print anything to PDF through the print daemon.

There are tons of Layout programs, but a good free one is Inkscape...not the greatest on the market, but combined with Word or some other Document formatter, it does well.

Also, there is Scribus...lots of people like it, I've always had a hard time getting it to run...but it's probably just me.

Hope this helps a little,

Brian

 

[thedevilmaycry]

I know that Wikipedia article but thanks for the effort Brian. Yes, PDF should work, but actually I was looking for some more interaction and multimedia possibilities. Guess I have to keep on looking.

 

[bmcgonag]

I know that Wikipedia article but thanks for the effort Brian. Yes, PDF should work, but actually I was looking for some more interaction and multimedia possibilities. Guess I have to keep on looking.

Sorry...wish I could've helped more.