Our approach is to allow people to write E-Books in HTML. We think HTML is the best language for distributed text and graphics because its powerful and compact as well as being simple to learn. Theres also its compatability for use at your web site and the vast range of software utilities available to help you write and learn the language. Its also non-proprietary, an industry standard, and it will be around a long, long time.
Make it easy to be good
Our approach to building an E-Book is very simple. You make one of our E-Books by creating a directory on your hard disk, and any number of sub - directories beneath that representing sections of your book. Then, any number of HTML files containing the text and graphic content of your book are copied into those directories. Each file can represent one or more pages of your book. We refer to this as a local web site.
Make it easy to read
Then our E-Book HTML browser is used to view the results. By dropping a copy of Authors' TitleViewer into the top directory, it automatically senses the folders and files around it and displays it graphically. Readers can instantly read any part of the book at a single click.
Make it easy to do your own thing
In addition to that, our browser is as customisable as the pages you design. We have a built in editor which allows you to custom - brand the whole screen. So if you have a corporate look, or just want the browser to match the look of your pages you can use a range of fills, gradient fills, bitmaps, fonts, colours and combination effects to do it. No other browser does that.
Advertising revenues
In addition, any title you produce with Authors TitleViewer can pay for itself if you decide to use the advertising hoarding feature. Sponsor / advertiser information is displayed at random, linked to a full page HTML file in your project.
When its ready and done, typically, our authors zip the whole site up for download or distribution.
Whats it cost?
Its basically a freeby. You can download a working, non-time limited copy from here and try it out. If you like it, we ask you to register your copy and theres a small fee ( eg $30 for personal use ).
Why bother ?
The market : 200 million PC's, 20 million browsers
The product : information - any information packaged to read
The shopfront : a simple internet web page
The Internet has been a huge success. Information now flows from one continent to another in a flash, reaching and connecting all points of the globe representing possibly the most valuable, most traded commodity in the history of mankind.
The success of the World Wide Web has in large part been due to the power and elegant simplicity of the language of internet publishing, HTML. Its a graphics formatting language (and more) which has enabled users to express themselves and their information to millions of personal web pages using simple tools but to stunning effect.
This is where E-Books based on HTML come in.
Anyone who has an idea to share, a product or service to sell, a book or a newsletter can reach a big audience using the E-Book approach and, hopefully, our software.