The FlipBook suite of digital publishing solutions provides content that FlipViewer® Xpress, in turn, can use. There are 2 ways to create FlipBooks readable in FlipViewer® Xpress, one using the FlipViewer® Xpress Creator (part of the FlipViewer® Enterprise Software Suite) and another via a Web-Based service, FlipCity.

Let us look at FlipViewer® Xpress first.

FlipViewer® Xpress, the FlipBook viewer
FlipViewer® Xpress allows you to read FlipBooks in a virtual 3D page flipping manner in standard browsers. This gives you the sense and look of a real book. In addition to the written word and images that you can see in both real and virtual books, FlipBooks can display animations, video and high quality audio that you can’t get in real books.

Next we will briefly look at the basic software for producing the FlipBooks and the suite of digital publishing solutions that go with them.

FlipViewer® Enterprise Software Suite Products to Produce FlipBooks
Firstly comes FlipViewer® Xpress Creator which is the basic software for the actual production of the FlipBook and publishing it on the net.  Then comes the suite of digital publishing solutions: The DRM Solution which enables you to copyright protect the material in the FlipBook; Then there is FlipAnalyzer™ that tracks the way that the reader uses your FlipBook. These are the attributes that along with animation, video and audio make the FlipBook more versatile than any hard bound or paper bound book or magazine.

Let us now focus on the basic software that creates the FlipBook, the FlipViewer® Xpress Creator.

FlipViewer® Xpress Creator – the New Wizard for Creation of FlipBooks
FlipViewer® Xpress Creator is a wizard based program that allows you to create and publish FlipBooks for viewing on FlipViewer® Xpress; package your FlipBook into .EXE or .ZIP file for offline reading or burn into a CD.

This amazing program has a wizard style interface that allows you to intuitively create your own FlipBook. It allows you to specify different book attributes and add different page formats e.g. Flash, images and PDF documents to the FlipBook.

When you use FlipViewer® Xpress Creator to create FlipBooks for viewing on FlipViewer® Xpress, not only can you customize the look and feel of the FlipBook so that it is truly your own book, but you can also: add bookmarks to pages to distinguish the chapters; create hyperlinks within pages as well as to external websites; add multimedia to the FlipBook to really bring it alive (you can add flash objects as well); customize auto-flipping if you want it—this allows you to automatically flip to the next page at, for instance, specified intervals or when a flash object or audio item finishes; add encryption to the FlipBook to protect copyright and; control how the reader can interact with your FlipBook.

Web Service – FlipCity

FlipCity is a simple and straight forward web service that helps you convert your PDF document into a FlipBook instantaneously. There is a 7-day free trial period for each FlipBook that you create. And if you are satisfied with the trial FlipBook, simply pay within the trial period and you can choose to host the FlipBook on FlipCity for one year, or download the FlipBook to host at your own site or for offline distribution.