Write and post to Kindle with Kindle Textbook creator – iLoveTablette (Blog)

Apple has virtually abandoned the project of iBooks Author, following many bugs since the last update, the hunt is on for competitors. So Amazon has just introduced its own application for creating interactive manuals and books: Kindle Textbook Creator

Kindle Textbook Features Creator

The application Kindle Textbook Creator is available in beta for Mac (OS X 10.8+) and PC (Windows 7 +). This application Kindle Textbook Creator does not create zero pounds but to convert text files (Word, HTML, Mobi or ePub) or illustrated (PDF preexisting manuals) into interactive books. Products and files playable on computer (Mac or PC), tablet (iPad, Android or Fire) and even smartphone (iPhone or Android).

Once formatted, the books are sent to Amazon , which offers a specific program to educational resources. Students can then highlight passages, take notes, consult the built logged dictionary and create memory cards. The set is grouped into a “book” digital, Whispersync synchronized on all compatible devices!

Amazon has Kindle Textbook Creator, to manufacture its books in any … – Touch Tablet

As we know, the presence of mobile digital devices in the educational world, the world of business, a major challenge for the different brands on the market. If Apple has understood offering for some time already its iBooks Author solution to produce manuals, Amazon back in the race with Kindle Textbook Creator.

A tablets in all schools and students who are working on it every day, that’s exactly what the future might hold if we listen to the various political and tablet manufacturers. In reality, we are still far from this situation, even if the equipment rate of students and teachers continues to grow.

To meet the needs of teachers and support in their teaching practice, the solutions are increasing in order to build on shelf courses or textbooks that resemble what we already know on paper. If this mimicry is perhaps not in itself the solution to adopt the digital scale class it has at least the merit of relying on a practice already in place, and so comforting the teachers most reluctant to switch to new technologies

A new brick to Amazon towards the world of education.

It is in this light that Apple had the first unsheathed his solution to produce manuals on a Mac before sending them on an iPad. iBooks Author makes it possible to insert text, video, image, animation or small exercises for pupils who can highlight or take notes directly from their manual. If Apple’s solution was very attractive, we must admit that she now suffers from some bugs and a little older, not having been updated.

Since this weekend, it also has a direct competitor that comes to us straight from Amazon, Kindle Textbook Creator. Additional Kindle Direct Publishing Brick Education Programme (KDP EDU), the solution Amazon has the primary advantage of being available on Macs and PCs, unlike iBooks Author.

The solution also enables it to produce manuals from their computer before exporting them on a tablet (iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablets …) or on a smartphone. Again the student can act on its digital book highlighting the elements or by working with flashcards to memorize the points addressed by the manual.

Create Manual from a file is childish.

To work, the teacher will leave a PDF, Word, HTML, ePub … but do not start a zero project as this is possible on iBooks Author. Still in beta, there are chances that the program evolves in the future and gaining new features. We also hope that Amazon will not put aside Kindle Textbook Creator as Apple could do with iBooks Author. A first grip helps to understand that Kindle Textbook Creator does not go as far as its competitor in the creation of a digital manual.

Finally, as its direct competitor, Amazon offers through its Store to put the textbooks available to the public and students. Like Apple, it leaves 70% of the revenue to the developer and keeps 30% of revenue in the process.

So a new attractive solution for teachers, especially as it is not restricted to run on Mac, but is open to all ecosystems.

Best Prices Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (8.9 inch)

Amazon iBooks Author compete with Kindle books – Actualitté.com

In 2012, Apple had made iBooks Author, which allows users to create their own textbooks and other interactive ebooks. Thursday, Amazon is positioning itself as a competitor in the segment by launching Textbook Creator, a tool offering users to convert PDF files, hungry storage space, and publish via Kindle Direct Publishing. The tool is available in Download Free for Mac and Windows.

For now, the only available language is English, and all manuals created using this tool will be marketable as via the Kindle Store, obviously. A similar rule has sparked controversy at the launch of iBooks Author.

Apparently revenue sharing on the platform of Amazon will be as usual: the authors receive 70% royalties when their ebook is priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99, but they receive only 30% on books sold at higher prices

Gold textbooks usually cost more than the cap of $ 9.99. At the Apple competitor, iBooks Author platform pays its authors in contrast to 70%, and regardless of the entire cost of the ebook readers.

For matters relating to the issue of compensation, Amazon, however, that the company will listen to feedback from its users.

Source: Venture Beat, Gigaom

To further

The book industry pushes readers to simplicity Kindle

Simon & amp; Schuster launches into paying online courses

The increasingly savvy students of printed textbooks

The book industry pushes readers to the simplicity of the Kindle – Actualitté.com

A reporter for the Associated Press has addressed the issue of standardized format EPUB, renowned open. Faced with the format 100% claimed as the owner of Kindle, EPUB accounts for the generally adopted by all players in the digital book solution. At a problem near All companies are appropriate, into a proprietary format

ActuaLitté, CC BY SA 2.0

The head of Amazon France, Romain Voog, had confessed to him despite ActuaLitté: the Kindle is a gilded prison, and success society stems. Recovering the MOBI format and pasting it a technology layer to turn it into KINDLE size, Amazon has created a completely closed ecosystem. Ebooks purchased from its ebookstore and can only be read with the Kindle devices, ebook readers, tablets or applications.

“ It is important to control the playback format, because it is very associated with the experience you are able to give to your customer. The format allows the development of specific applications, text enrichment, dictionaries. I think the service X-Ray [ Ed that provides additional data to the book] to highlight, sharing: there is a real technical advantage to be able to control its size. Because that is what makes innovation ‘,’ he stated.

And now the AP reporter attempts to examine what it means well open format that can be read logically with all devices other than the Kindle. In other words, without the list being exhaustive, Bookeen, Kobo, Nook, iBooks, etc. Causing the interrogation of journalist from a mention in the help section of Kobo. It says that to transfer ebooks bought on the platform, and read it with another device, you have to use Adobe Digital Edition. Splendide.

Our reporter then launched into the great crossing: download software Adobe, create an account, integrate Adobe ID – but with all the constraints that can wait. Simply because, for different ebookstores, the files are changed, and ebook readers can not handle files, despite binding manipulations.

Welcome to a world of locks

Of course, all this has a name: Digital Right Management, and Measurement Protection techniques. This tool, available for now only by the Adobe company gives the publisher the ability to limit the number of devices which transfer the ebook, prevent pirate copying, prevent printing of the document, etc. In sum, the DRM is a lock for constraining the user.

Logically, the reporter then concludes that ultimately, “ built the walls of Amazon with the Kindle is not so bad after all. Although Kindle books do not work on other ereaders, Amazon Kindle offers applications for just about all other devices, including the Nook Tablet from Samsung and Apple’s iPad . ”

This brings us to wonder why annoy with a device supporting the open format, so everything is so simple with Kindle. This is also the key to the success of Amazon simplicity, in a fully mastered reading environment. To the editor, it is also double punishment: since readers tired of the open-file is readable with a multiplication manipulations to operate, why not go to the most convenient? So Kindle …

What then strengthen the stranglehold of Amazon and consolidate a growing monopoly that benefits grinning problems with Adobe locks and can not but dissatisfied with open arms, swearing the interoperability of its model. And for good reason: there is necessarily an application to find his readings occur on all types of devices.

We had already asked this question, at the height of the conflict between Hachette Book Group and the firm of Jeff Bezos:

We must not believe that the behavior of Amazon, for logic whether in trade discussions, can be quite trivial. Because in the digital book market, its position is still special – some, and we also wrote, say monopolistic. Simply because the firm of Jeff Bezos was able to show through various merchandising, and tax optimization solutions, more attractive than other booksellers. As it is, therefore, customers encouraged to go to other booksellers will only provide it … paper books.

Amazon indeed resembles Google: the search engine is known for its indecipherable algorithm, referencing and dereferencing them at will websites, according to criteria relatives of arbitrariness. And this domination gives it an almost exclusive position in the online advertising sales, eclipsing number of competitors, the multitude of platforms that may have found the Ad-sense. Google owns its algorithm, and Amazon owns its Kindle format, all this is not very good for net neutrality. Or worse: if there are other search engines, the owners of a Kindle can never supplies elsewhere than Amazon …

The paradox is, moreover, not least in Article L. 131-9 of the Intellectual Property Code states that “ the contract mentions the possibility for the producer to use technological measures “. And as we said a specialist in intellectual property, “ can not prevent a publisher to affix technical protection measures because it has the right for him “. Ah, yes, France …

But it is difficult to point this from a reader who, by buying an ebook reader, especially wanted to find the same effectiveness with a paper book. But in fact, the combination of marketing techniques, tax optimization solutions, a formidable marketing and service that is gaining ground as the most effective … is not it and a society is necessary, and imposes its product as the best answer to the public?

The conclusion is scary: after all, in persisting in DRM, the Book industry does not she sends a strong message to the readers? A message that could be summed up: “ In fact, become Amazon customers, it is more convenient . “

And no, this post was not purchased by Amazon …

To further

To harmonize copyright in Europe: the excellent report by Julia Reda

French law requires publishers to sell an ebook without DRM

German booksellers ask publishers to do without DRM

Malware for Android can hide a threat to the Kindle Fire – Actualitté.com

The Android operating system pays its popularity, with an increasing number of malware: according to data firm Fortinet, 1300 pourriciels appear every day, and would count more than 900,000 at work. Now, one of the famous tablets on the market, the Kindle Fire runs on the OS Fire, Amazon owns an overlay without waiver of these attacks.

By visiting a WordPress website with its tablet, a user has seen to spring a nice pop-up window, telling him that he had to make an update. Of course, the message is a fake, and it is clear that the web page is not going to absolutely verify the integrity of the kernel device – and even less, to repair anything.

Click OK then leads the user to another page, the more big again, that offers the future victim to install the update. The two buttons, Cancel, or install, will return to the same Android application, which will then be used to infect the machine.

The latter comes from a Chinese e-commerce company, and though in itself it is not malicious, it will send the personal data of the user, on several occasions, and it is not possible to prevent it. Neither know.

In late December, the publisher of Kaspersky antivirus already reported that the malware began to populate the Amazon App Store after being released from the Google Play. Two false applications were detected, and, according to the researchers, the popularity of Amazon would incite vigilance find malicious apps from the Store was quite logical in view of the availability of tablets and public enthusiasm for latter.

If the Kindle Fire propriétarisée works with a version of the Android OS , it remains a bit of fondness for pirates. According to Kaspersky, threats specifically targeting the tablet come mostly a rather lax policy regarding applications offered to users.

Prudence remains of valor, including Kindle Fire.

To further

Cybercrime: Viruses and malware housed under the cape of Superman

When the EPUB 3 open shelves viruses, Trojans and malware

USA: Use malware to defend intellectual property

Malware for Android can hide a threat to the Kindle Fire – Actualitté.com

The Android operating system pays its popularity, with an increasing number of malware: according to data firm Fortinet, 1300 pourriciels appear every day, and would count more than 900,000 at work. Now, one of the famous tablets on the market, the Kindle Fire runs on the OS Fire, Amazon owns an overlay without waiver of these attacks.

By visiting a WordPress website with its tablet, a user has seen to spring a nice pop-up window, telling him that he had to make an update. Of course, the message is a fake, and it is clear that the web page is not going to absolutely verify the integrity of the kernel device – and even less, to repair anything.

Click OK then leads the user to another page, the more big again, that offers the future victim to install the update. The two buttons, Cancel, or install, will return to the same Android application, which will then be used to infect the machine.

The latter comes from a Chinese e-commerce company, and though in itself it is not malicious, it will send the personal data of the user, on several occasions, and it is not possible to prevent it. Neither know.

In late December, the publisher of Kaspersky antivirus already reported that the malware began to populate the Amazon App Store after being released from the Google Play. Two false applications were detected, and, according to the researchers, the popularity of Amazon would incite vigilance find malicious apps from the Store was quite logical in view of the availability of tablets and public enthusiasm for latter.

If the Kindle Fire propriétarisée works with a version of the Android OS , it remains a bit of fondness for pirates. According to Kaspersky, threats specifically targeting the tablet come mostly a rather lax policy regarding applications offered to users.

Prudence remains of valor, including Kindle Fire.

To further

Cybercrime: Viruses and malware housed under the cape of Superman

When the EPUB 3 open shelves viruses, Trojans and malware

USA: Use malware to defend intellectual property

Kindle sales reduced to almost nothing at the bookseller Waterstones – Actualitté.com

In going to return to profitability, the British bookstore chain Waterstones expected much from this year end 2014. James Daunt, its current director, former banker, even ensured that the company could return to normal life if book sales continued. With a particularity: Waterstones was part of the players who have signed to sell Kindle ebooks. A mistake?

Elliott Brown, CC BY 2.0

Of course, Daunt has always ensured that the printed book would not disappear, and the tactile sensation of these objects was more important than the immediacy of the purchase permitted by digital. Especially as digital sales, carried out with the Kindle interface from the site of the library, remained totally marginal, compared to the total turnover.

Amazon has come to the seventh generation of his ebook readers and continues to conquer, step by step, market shares in the Anglo-Saxon world and all over the world. However, after reviewing the year-end results, Waterstones operates a simple observation: digital sales are so lowered that they become non-existent

While the winds of physical books in stores witnessed a growth of 5%, the ebook format becomes totally negligible. “ The ebooks have developed a market share, of course, but just to believe – and certainly if you look at America – that share is already in decline. Indicators point it will be exactly the same for the UK market “insists Daunt.

The company Waterstones has 290 physical stores located in the territory, and committed with Amazon, in 2012, ‘ to solve digital issue . ” The observation is made, however, identical to the one Sam Husain, CEO of Barnes & amp; Noble, for digital: the figures “ are not as impressive as one might expect .” (Via Financial Times )

To further

UK: The promotion campaign enjoys reading booksellers

When the digital book becomes a matter of fiction

France: Open book lending to self-published authors libraries