I have finally gotten to the point where my largest Hype Children’s Book Project is nearing completion for publishing.
I have debated publishing in iBooks, converting to an App using Xcode and I also want to push it out on Amazon’s network.
While I have the iBook and App portion covered. Has anyone tried to make a book with animation in it for the Kindle?
I have found contradicting links that say you can and you can’t.
While I may have the non animated version in Kindle and Print and then make an app as an additional bonus for the app store, I would still love to keep the original intent of an animated ebook that works across multiple readers.
Ha ha. Over the weekend I wrote to Tumult basically asking the same thing. The iBook Widgets that Hype can create are great, but do they work in anything other than iBooks?
I can tell you that the moment one of these other platforms develops a packaging system for deploying HTML/CSS/JS animations we’ll dig right in!
One promising tool is the Kindle Textbook creator in Beta: http://j.mp/1UdV6K7. The tool is meant for audio/video & mathematic equations, and seems built around the conversion from PDF --> Kindle Format (.mobi).
If Amazon were to support the .wdgt package in some form, they’d make a lot of people very happy.
Once when I said ‘HTML only works on iBooks’, I was quickly corrected and sent a link to Readium. For schools that deploy Chromebooks, this is a good tool for reading books.
The various Kindle formats are terrible. It is hard to see Amazon ever supporting anything useful. Just adding a clickable URL is a major headache in fixed layout because it relies on Region Magnification and JSON. Region Magnification is unusable as part of a normal paragraph because it expects the whole paragraph to be the area.
Thanks for this!
I would love it if they would make the .wdgt format available for Kindle.
If their device could handle the files I would think it would be a major advantage for sales.
I think my best direction for the moment is going to be Hype to iBooks Author and a “no feature” Kindle version.
The nice thing is this title should hold it’s own without the animation but it won’t be nearly as fun
