Ebook maker: It's like an interactive PDF!

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By TedAcer

If you have never heard of an ebook before then you're in for a treat!  Let me feed you some delicious information into your awaiting mouth!  Ebooks are basically just electronic books; in this way, they are more versatile than books.  They're easy to transfer, distribute, and other cool things only available on these crazy computer things.  You can also integrate things into ebooks that you can't do in a normal book that can essentially turn it into an interactive pdf.  If you don't know what a pdf is, then let me enlighten you! It basically can be a text and graphical page-by-page copy of a book.

Now, you may start to understand the implications of having a PDF be interactive.  Imagine yourself reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: you click on a tiny little graphic of Mr. Darcy and a little animation plays as he says "Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

We truly do live in a world of unprecedented technology that can only be described as magic!

You won't be needing these anymore...!
You won't be needing these anymore...!

You think that's a book you're reading?

Animations, music, sound files, and all other crazy effects can be implemented into ebooks.  It really is quite amazing!  It is an entire interactive presentation in one file that you can easily transfer around.  Authors are no longer bound by the physical limitations of papyrus and are instead able to let their imagination run truly free now that ebook creation software is available.

Don't know how to publish a book? Use an ebook maker instead! Just because you don't know how to get a book published doesn't mean it is difficult.  In fact, it is quite easy! We don't need real books anymore! Just ebooks!

Ebook creation software

Now that I've somehow convinced you to create an ebook for some reason, you have to choose what program you want to use!  Your interactive pdf won't make itself! Unless you have the right software, I guess.

  • Ebook Maker - Not a bad program but you might need to know HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, or Flash to get the most out of it
  • Easy Ebook Creator - Kind of expensive and not that great in terms of features.
  • eBooksWriter - Simple to use and has more features than the previous two programs
  • KooBits - A pretty decent ebook maker that lets you do a lot of other things for cheap. This is what I would recommend.

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