Sumit, you don't need Internet access to interact with webpages. You can open and interact with a webpage saved in your local device just like any other digital file. I would also recommend taking a look at the Adobe Digital Publishing suite:
http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-publishing-suite-family.html Regards, Diego M. Rosa On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, sumit garg <sumitgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks daniel for your inputs. > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Drozdzewski > <daniel.drozdzew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sumit, >> >> I don't want to be too pessimistic, but I think coming up with your >> proprietary eBook format could be a dead end avenue. >> >> What matters for a given platform is content. How quickly will you be >> able to publish new interactive positions? yeah thats an issue >> >> >> Why not support existing multimedia ebook format(s) or publish your >> content as webpages, in which case the whole publishing process is >> much easier and your project has much smaller scope. >> Implementing new format is not a trivial task, when you count >> compatibility with previous versions of your format, which is bound to >> happen, as you will learn new things in the process. > > >> >> because for those who will not be having 24 hours internet access it will >> be problem if we publish as webpages and publishing a book of say 200 >> >> pages will not be easy i suppose and then books with so much videos and >> animations will need a high speed internet connection. > > >> >> >> Where is your revenue going to come from? Device sale or content sale? >> mostly from content sale but what we can do is we can partner with a >> publisher who already has content and then we can put it in form of a book >> using our software which can be put into the tablets or sold on the net. >> >> Subscriptions or price per item? > > Though subscription is not a bad idea but write now we are thinking of > price per item but we will break the book into chapters and sell individual > chapters as well not just the complete book. >> >> > >> >> Answers to those questions should direct your project (I am sure they >> >> do), but it seems to me that there are 2 distinct avenues depending on >> the revenue source: >> - you intend to sell hardware in which case coming up with your format >> makes little sense >> - you want to sell multimedia ebooks, in which case, why trying to >> develop hardware AND your own format; we are not trying to develop a >> hardware there are existing multimedia >> formats, yeah we are also considering that but we feel that the >> interactivity is still not that much and it makes more sense to support >> something that is out there already. Standards are here for a reason. >> >> >> If you want to explore both avenues, you have to have a lot of weight >> behind you to pull it off. Likes of Sony, Amazon, Barns & Noble spring >> to mind... >> >> Have a look here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats >> ... and also have a peek at epub 3 standard: >> http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/#sec-multimedia > > >> >> thanks for the resources >> >> Good Luck! >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> Sumit >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
