eBook Development
With the launch of eBooks the whole idea of reading has changed drastically. These days many publishers are venturing into the business of ebook publishing and producing hybrid quality of eBooks called interactive eBooks that would go a long way in providing an amazing reading experience.
Our team at Crystal Hues works relentlessly towards creating eBooks for quite a few established publishers and organizations. We also have a skillful and dexterous group of professional and experienced team members who work continuously on the many unique requirements of each of our clients to develop and create interactive eBooks.
Services related to eBook development include:
- Fixed layout eBooks - Apple, ePub3 and Kindle
- ePub2 and ePub3 standard of eBooks
- Narrative profile based eBooks
- Interactive and multimedia-rich eBooks
- Children's books/ Story books
- Picture books/ Comic books
- Edutainment books
- Audio Books
- Arabic eBooks
eBook Conversion
eBooks have taken the publishing industry by storm. This new type of ebook has transformed the way any individual reads books, purchases fiction and nonfiction, and manages or stores these books. The development of these eBooks requires technical assistance and in depth knowledge of subjects such as design and content. eBooks also have to be conceptualized, planned, designed and developed bearing in mind the format limitations and device specifications of eBooks in mind. At CHL, our team of specialized professionals provide a comprehensive range of eBook-related services, be it eBook conversions, typesetting, eBook enhancements, customized eBook development or consulting. Our team also has the required expertise to create eBooks with XML workflows, content conversion and delivery mechanisms for various mediums and devices such as iPad/iPhone, Android tablets, Kindle, Nook, and many other eReaders and smart phones.
Services related to eBook development include:
- Conversion of documents to eBook format (ePUB/ePUB3/PDF/Mobi)
- Cover design using supplied artwork, stock images or a new illustration
- Editing and optimization of images within the eBook, if any
- eBook layout design and formatting
- Website design to promote your eBook titles
- eBook testing, advice and support
Enhanced eBooks
eBooks are catching up at their own pace and are slowly beginning to shadow printed books. Despite this mounting popularity, most eBooks are actually just digital equivalents or copies of the hardcopies of the books published. To increase the readers' involvement, enjoyment and fun quotient (and to scale up sales) publishers are always trying to devise new solutions and approaches to improve the entire 'reading experience'.
With our thorough understanding of the publishing fraternity and knowledge of a wide range of reading communities, our company can help a number of authors and publishers to metamorphose their traditional reading books and eBooks into enhanced eBooks by strategically embedding rich media content such as video and audio, interactivity, annotations, cross references, footnotes, links to websites and social media sites..These enhanced eBooks are carefully created with the help of using the latest standards and technologies available in the publishing fraternity, such as ePUB3, HTML5, CSS3 and native frameworks of iOS and Android.
Our enhanced eBooks include:
- Multimedia-rich eBooks
- Animated books
- Interactive eBooks
- Children's books/story books
- Multilingual eBooks
- Edutainment books
Book-as-an-APP
Today, eBooks are widely popular as these are extremely simple and easy to carry around. These books are made in various formats so that these books can be enjoyed on completely different media and devices. To provide readers with a wholesome reading experience and to see a marked difference in the sales of the books, certain categories of books are created as applications specific to devices such as iPhone, iPad, Google Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile.
At Crystal Hues, we have a dedicated team of seasoned professionals who have the required expertise in the latest mobile technologies, content design and development, and instructional design principles. By leveraging our in-depth understanding of the publishing industry and eLearning industries, we can help our clients create feature-rich and engaging eBooks as applications. While developing a 'Book-as-an-APP', we make liberal use of the following features and options such as:
- Multimedia rich graphics, audio, video, animation, etc.
- Location-aware functionalities
- Usage of accelerometer
- Social media connectivity - Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin etc.
Usually, the development cost involved in creating a Book-as-an-APP is a lot higher in comparison to the development of ePUB or PDF format of an eBook. To reduce this entire development cost, we could develop useful applications that make use of open standards and cross-platform/cross-device standards, and separate content from programming code wherever possible. In addition, we also ensure that our clients get complete support at every step of the process from building the app, to getting it approved and launching it on the App store.
Audio Book
Our organization Crystal Hues can create audio books in a number of languages, namely English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish and Italian.
Some of the services for audio books include:
- Narrated eBooks/ePUBs and storybooks
- Math and Science books using inline ASCII Math
- DAISY and NIMAS XML for talking books
- Audio Production Services in MP3, WMP (Windows Media Player), RA (Real Audio) and many other audio formats
- Audio embedding into PDF format files
- ePUB3 formats with DAISY capability