Technology Readers

What does digital publishing offer me, as a reader?

As a reader, you’re familiar with traditional books: words and sometimes images printed in ink on a paper page. Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the last few years, you’re probably at least moderately familiar with e-books, perhaps as PDF files or HTML files or maybe through proprietary readers like the Kindle. But we’re not talking about PDF files, HTML, or devices like the Kindle. We’re talking about something entirely different, something far more powerful and exciting.

Let’s start by comparing a BookOn product with a PDF file. Both provide fully formatted, digital versions of the paper page. Both preserve all formatting and can even include color images. But where the PDF file stops, the BookOn product is just getting started. You can think of a BookOn product as a PDF file with hotspots and layers, something like PDF meets the Web meets video. You’re viewing this Web site in a browser, so we can’t actually show you the full technology, but we can provide a mock-up to give you an idea of how it works.

As an example, the image on the left is from Ordinary Heroes: Six Stars in the Window, a non-fiction book about World War II. On that page of the book, a World War II veteran, one of six brothers who served in the war, remembers the day America entered the war.

Both the print and digital versions of the book show that image, the first frame from the video, but in the digital version of the book you can click the link to watch the video, right on the page. Once you try it, you’ll discover that it’s one thing to read about the events of that day. It’s another thing entirely to hear a veteran talk about those events in his own words.

This is powerful stuff and it’s just one example of what we mean when we say “photos come to life as videos.” To try free samples of BookOn products, click here to visit the Products page.

Click the BookOnDownload icon to download a free sample of Ordinary Heroes: Six Stars in the Window for Mac or Windows as a feature-rich BookOnDownload. This is what digital publishing is supposed to be!

Or, click the BookOnBrowser icon to try the same book running right in your browser. If you like the BookOnBrowser, be sure to try the BookOnDownload for the complete BookOn experience!

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