Page Turning Software: How to decide which one to use

If you publish a print magazine or journal then you are either already using or thinking about using a page turning software for digitizing your publication. And sure enough there are plenty of software and services available to help you convert your print media into digital page turning software. You will most likely try 2-3 different providers and soon realize that deciding which one to use is a rather complex decision. One that needs to be made carefully with a full set of considerations that incorporate your current and future needs. Here are several key questions or criteria that you will find helpful to work through your decision process.

1. Should you install page turning software on your network or subscribe to a hosted service?
2. What are the most important aspects of the page turning software from a web viewer's perspective?
3. What are the key admin features that one can expect from a page turning software?
4. What features or capabilities should be considered premium or value added?
5. If more than one provider satisfies my criteria - does it matter which company I select as my choice provider?

Digital Publication

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Flipbook

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Flash Magazine

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PDF to Flash Magazine

Flash Magazines - With Page Turning Software

Flash magazines are still the best option for creating digital publications from print versions. The reasons are simple. Flash platform is stable, there is a huge development community constantly churning out components and continuously improving the usability and the already-phenomenal functionality of a flash magazine. Flash has over 95% penetration across the major browsers; you don’t need any new hardware such as a Kindle to view the digital versions, and finally the enormous flexibility to incorporate video, ecommerce, IAB compliant ads and countless other flash-based components. The last hurdle for flash magazines or flash-based digital editions with Page Turning Software to become the de facto standard is for Adobe to achieve high levels of penetration with its mobile friendly version of Flash. For starters, just the major devices such as the iPhone and Blackberry, would do.

Flash magazines of flash-based digital editions have some intrinsic advantages from a user perspective as well. The quality of graphics and realistic animation, which have become the standard in rich media ads, do a fantastic job of maintaining the look and feel of a print magazine. Moreover, the flash magazine often caches the immediate next or previous pages which means that the user does not have to wait for the next page to load when they turn forward or backward. Just think of a flash magazine as a perfect blend of all things good in a print magazine i.e., quality, graphics, and web based content i.e., web based access, cross linking for usability, and social media functionality.

The world of media and information will instantly become richer and a lot more exciting as soon as Kindle and other hardware incorporate Flash Magazines into delivery capability.

Antimalware

Page Turning Software Track User Behavior

If you circulate a publication then you want to know what your readers think and how they interact with your printed Digital publication. Unfortunately, print surveys for these publications are costly, time consuming and very rarely are they a 100% sampling of your audience. With a Flipbook version of your print publication, you will always have the answer for key demographic and behavioral questions about your readers such as:
• How many readers actually read your Flipbook at any point in time?
• How long did they spend between the covers of your Flipbook?
• What held their interest the longest?
• What caused them to follow through on a call-to-action within your Flipbook?
• Where did they go after they were finished with your Flipbook?
• How many passed your Flipbook along to friends or colleagues?

And if you have advertisers within the pages of your Flipbook, this allows them to see information about their campaign in real time just as they would via a Web site.

Antimalware

Page Turning Software Provide an Interactive Experience

A Digital Flipbook can display rich media like video and animation around and within your content which draws your readers further into the page. Where a hardcopy of your publication can only offer static copy and imagery, a Flipbook raises the bar and provides your readers with a whole new experience they can’t receive from print. It’s interactive. Your readers can immediately respond to things they see (and hear) within the digital pages of your Flipbook. Additionally, readers can search the content of your Flipbook easier and faster within a single publication or across an archive of your digital Flipbooks. Page Turning Software