In the tech world, you’ve played with them. If you subscribe to any online magazines, you’ve probably used one. The PDF, to some extent, is dead.
A digital flip book combines the best of the physical world, with the best of the digital. Instead of converting your printed collateral into PDFs and dumping them on the Web, create an interactive, feature-rich reading experience for your audience.
Let’s take a look at the benefits and features digital flipbook software can bring.
Digital Flip Book Features
- Turn page experience – grab a corner, flip the page. This is probably it’s coolest “non-technical” feature from a usability standpoint
- Search – keyword search for any text within flip book
- Customizable – add your logo and/or mimic your website theme and turn your flip book into an extension of your business or personal profile. It’s all up to you to decide on its appearance and what it should be able to do
- Active Logo – your logo, links to your web site – shouldn’t they all???
- News Ticker – add a scrolling news ticker with links to other websites (like your own blog)
- Embed Video – yes, embed video directly into your digital magazine and make it come alive
- Download – download original for offline viewing
- Tell a Friend – email it to your friends
- Print – print any page or the entire book
- Pagination & Navigation – easily navigate your digital flip book with direct input, mouse, keyboard or next/previous arrows (or see the 1st bullet)
- Overview – need a global look? View thumbnails of all the pages to easily drill-down on specific topics
- Index – create your own custom index with active links to current pages
- RSS – integrate RSS feeds into your digital catalog
- Zoom – all the way to 200% – your grand-pappy can use it
- Help & Close – buttons for help and closing out your book
Tangible Benefits
- Go Green – cliche, yes, but its true. Take your current companies paper usage on brochures and flyer’s and make them digital once-and-for-all
- Save Money – well duh, stop printing on paper, you start saving a BOAT LOAD of money. No more printers, no more die cut costs, no more ink cartridges, no more Brazilian tribes being left homeless, you get the picture…
- Be Cool – dude, how cool will you be with your new, shiny, digital flip book or catalog? Be a first at your next company meeting with your digital “annual reports” presentation – now no one will have to fall asleep listening to you speak EVER again
Sold! Learn more about digital flip book software here.
Google Wave is many things, but to paraphrase it into one line, Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless — in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more… You can bring together groups of friends, clients, or business partners together (in real-time) to discuss how your project is going, share files by simply dragging and dropping (everyone will have instant access), or simply discuss how your day is progressing.