Readers can now download entire guides in a dynamic, 3-D page-flipping format

SANTA CLARA, CA, January 22, 2010 — E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip® e-publishing technology, announces that Breakaway Adventures has adopted its 3-D page-flipping FlipViewer® Xpress viewer format for its online brochures.

Breakaway Adventures specializes in self-guided walking and cycling tours in Europe.

“We chose FlipViewer® Xpress Creator software because it’s very user-friendly and cost effective. The customer service was excellent and we can get the project up and running quickly.” said Carol Keskitalo, Operations Manager of Breakaway Adventures.

With E-Book Systems’ FlipViewer® Xpress solution, readers can go to www.breakaway-adventures.com and browse through the digital editions of the HeadWater’s Europe 2010 Guides. In a matter of moments, readers can view the digital brochures just as they would appear in print — with real “flipping” pages and more.

“We have received many positive comments regarding the created FlipBook from our clients.” said Carol. ‘Our previous system was cumbersome with long download times – so far, we have received no complaints about the ease of download (a frequent problem in the past!)”

In addition to the ease of use advantages offered by the technology, Breakaway Adventures’ digital brochures allow for the ability to reach more international readers. Due to the higher postage costs for international readers to receive the printed version, the digital edition provides them with a low-cost alternative for receiving the brochures.

“Some of our vendors have asked for your name – as they would like to offer a similar service to their readers.” added Carol.

E-Book Systems’ FlipViewer® Xpress Creator software enables publishers and corporations to create and publish realistic page-flipping digital publications (“FlipBooks”) easily with just a few mouse clicks. The created FlipBook can then be hosted on any web server for online viewing or distributed through any media (e.g. CD, thumb drive, etc.) for offline viewing. The software accepts any PDF, image and Flash documents as inputs. In addition, multimedia elements like audio and video files can be incorporated into the FlipBook to enhance readers’ experience. E-Book Systems’ Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution safeguards content providers’ intellectual properties.

Breakaway Adventures joins a growing roster of E-Book Systems’ customers listed in http://www.flipviewer.com/flipbooks/. For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (65) 6258-6100, via email at info@ebooksys.com or visit www.flipviewer.com.

For more information about Breakaway Adventures or to request for brochures, visit www.breakaway-adventures.com or call 1-800-567-6286.

About E-Book Systems
E-Book Systems (www.ebooksys.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems specializes in providing software tools and services for the e-Publishing market. E-Book System’s products make use of its proprietary patented Digital Flip® user interface technology to deliver multimedia content and information such as PDF, video, audio, digital image, text, etc. via an impressive 3D Page-Flipping interface, which appears as a virtual FlipBook. These content could be streamed or delivered both online and offline through E-Book’s OpenFlip™ format.

E-Book Systems, a private on-going corporation, has offices in California (Santa Clara), China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo), Berlin (Germany) and Singapore. Investors include Creative Technology Ltd. and SOFTBANK Creative, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp. E-Book Systems’ products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, China, Japan and Asia Pacific Region.

About Breakaway Adventures
Breakaway Adventures is a tour company that offers relaxed overseas getaways where guests can walk, cycle, trek or barge through the back roads of 30 countries, including Italy, France, Greece and Great Britain. Specializing in self-guided and fully-supported independent tours, the company provides the highest level of service to its customers, managing all the details so they can focus on the adventure at hand. For more information, visit www.breakaway-adventures.com.

Prague, January, 18^th, 2010 –  Weekly magazine EURO presents novelty, which was prepared for its subscribers: since the beginning of the year in addition to traditional paper based forms and in electronic version.

Appearance and browsing by the eVydání closer than the printed magazine. Interactive content and preview pages for quick and easy navigation in a magazine. eVydání Euro magazine subscribers are always available at least 24 hours before the printed edition is every Sunday morning at evydani.euro.cz.

“Euro is the first economic weekly in the Czech Republic, which offers such a service. It’s interesting news for the advertisers whose ads can eVydání act as active links to Web sites,” says editor István Leko.

The electronic version includes many features that help readers find information and work with them. This includes the possibility to insert bookmarks, add your comments to the articles or highlight the text. There is a full-text search, automatic scrolling, fast flip to selected page and multiple smooth zoom. Panels “Content” and “Thumbnail view” allow easy navigation .

Older eVydání remain stored in the user’s personal archive, so it is possible to return them again at any time. Particularly appreciate the service subscribers abroad, who thanks to eVydání have immediate access to current information and not wait until they deliver mail edition printed.

Services sample is available at:  http://evydani.euro.cz/demo/fvxintro.html

Weekly magazine EURO is the actual source of insider information from the world of business. It provides a comprehensive look at key events and trends in the economy, trade, politics and society. Since its founding in 1998, the weekly Euro managed to become the best-selling, most quoted and most powerful advertising title in its category. EURO weekly issued every Monday. More information on www.euro.cz.

Stock company EURONEWS operating on the market more than 11 years and concentrates on titles and services specially designed for groups of decision makers and opinion makers. The flagship of the publishing house is a weekly EURO. Other products include electronic information service Euro24, Euro9 and EURO Meeting – professional, educational and social events that allow participants to personally meet with experts and prominent personalities from the business and politics. EuroNews is operated by the economic news server Euro.cz.

Media contact: Martina Jannová, marketing manager

EURONEWS, a. s., Holečkova 103/31, 150 00 Praha 5

tel.: + 420 723 695 483     e-mail: martina.jannova@euro.cz

Boček Media is a Value Added Reseller of E-Book Systems for CR. It deals with supply solutions for online publishing, including systems for managing subscribers and content security (DRM). For archive eVydání of Euro magazine delivered publishing solutions FlipViewer® Xpress, including DRM and developed a website to manage archives eVydání.

Media contact: Daniel Boček

Boček Media, Tábroská 4, 326 00 Plzeň

tel.: +420 776 052 925       e-mail: info@bocekmedia.net

E-Book Systems Launches FlipViewer® Xpress Creator 2.0 Digital Publishing Software, that now puts the Publisher in Control

SANTA CLARA, California (November 10, 2009) /PRNewswire/ — E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip® e-publishing technology, announces today the release of the FlipViewer® Xpress Creator 2.0, a wizard-based software that runs on PC. It enables publishers and corporations to create and publish realistic page-flipping digital publications (“FlipBooks”) easily with just a few mouse clicks. The created FlipBook can then be hosted on any web server for online viewing or distributed through any media (e.g. CD, thumb drive, etc.) for offline viewing.

Once the FlipBook is created, it can be easily viewed by the FlipViewer® Xpress viewer. This is a Flash-based viewer which can run on many different operating system platforms including Windows and Mac. FlipViewer® Xpress conveys the FlipBook in a 3-D page flipping interface, where pages are displayed like those in a real book. While a reader is reading the current page, the next few pages will be streamed into his computer. Page streaming allows pages to be available for immediate reading without having to wait for the entire book to be downloaded first. Staying true to the book paradigm, the displayed thickness of the FlipBook in FlipViewer® Xpress is indicative of the number of pages inside, allowing readers to “thumb” through it with the mouse. Readers can also perform keyword searches, bookmark pages, highlight passages and add comments using a virtual notepad while reading the FlipBook.

“What I like about FlipViewer® Xpress is that it is easy to use. Most of my customers like the simplicity of just flipping through a book instead of navigating through web pages,” said Paul Hsieh, President of The Pear Group, Inc. “Therefore, your software did help us achieving what we set out to do – to publish books like catalogues on web and to eliminate the need to navigate the web. In a word, we are all looking for simplicity.”

Hsieh further added, “There are many other flip book software, but yours comes on top for its ease to use. I have tried several other software but I gave it up after a while.”

FlipViewer® Xpress Creator accepts any PDF, image and/or Flash documents as inputs. A single FlipBook can thus be generated out of a combination of multiple inputs of such file types. In addition, multimedia elements like audio and video files can be incorporated into the FlipBook to enhance readers’ experience. Indeed, with FlipViewer® Xpress Creator, the user can create a FlipBook with voice narrations by associating audio files with any of the pages. FlipViewer® Xpress Creator can also generate files for search-engines to index. This will enable the FlipBooks to become searchable by the search-engines (e.g. Google).

The most important aspect of FlipViewer® Xpress Creator is that it allows a user to customize how FlipViewer® Xpress (i.e., the FlipBook viewer) will look like to the readers when the FlipBook is opened. Publishers and corporations can easily customize their logos and branding info into the viewer displaying their FlipBooks. In addition to the ability to customize the user interface, the language of FlipViewer® Xpress can also be changed. In this way, the user can target his FlipBooks globally catering to readers in the different parts of the world. Languages currently supported include: Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

“We have tried several different products to create digital flipbooks but yours is able to create a much more realistic digital publication than the competitor products could. Our current book is very large and we did experience crashing issues with the competitor software products. Small books were no problem for any of the software solutions but FlipViewer® Xpress Creator was the only product that could reliably and consistently create large digital books,” commented Jeff Walton, General Manager of Minneapolis Mart (Division of UMAGA).

“I like many of the features of your product such as flexible source file types as input, customizable controls and background, output as self-extractable EXE, Auto-flipping, easy-to-use magnification and so on. Your product is also much better supported than other competitive products we tested. Overall, the FlipViewer® Xpress Creator provides the most pleasing output and options for digital book generation. I am very pleased with the results and strongly recommend FlipViewer® Xpress Creator from E-Book Systems,” said Walton.

With FlipViewer® Xpress Creator, users can now create digital publications out of print publications like catalogues, brochures, annual reports, magazines, books, manuals, handbooks, newsletters and so on. Digital publications allow users to reach out to more readers via the Internet globally and to save in printing cost.

The FlipViewer® Xpress Creator is part of the FlipViewer® Enterprise Software Suite which E-Book Systems offers as a complete e-publishing solution to publishers and corporations. For more information, please refer to: http://www.flipviewer.com/products/overview/

For a sample of E-Book Systems’ customers, please refer to: http://www.flipviewer.com/flipbooks/

For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (408) 625-8000, via email at info@ebooksys.com or online at http://www.flipviewer.com.

Recommended System Requirements:

Intel® Core 2 Duo 2Ghz processor and above
2GB RAM or more
Windows 7, Vista, XP
Internet Explorer 7.0 or above
Adobe Flash plug-in (version 9.0.115.0 and above)

About E-Book Systems
E-Book Systems (www.ebooksys.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems specializes in providing software tools and services for the e-Publishing market. E-Book System’s products make use of its proprietary patented Digital Flip® user interface technology to deliver multimedia content and information such as PDF, video, audio, digital image, text, etc via an impressive 3D Page-Flipping interface, which appears as a virtual FlipBook. These content could be streamed or delivered both online and offline through E-Book’s OpenFlip™ format.

E-Book Systems, a private on-going corporation, has offices in California (Santa Clara), China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo), Berlin (Germany) and Singapore. Investors include Creative Technology Ltd. and SOFTBANK Creative, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Corp. E-Book Systems’ products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, China, Japan and Asia Pacific Region.

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May 22, 2009 – E-Book Systems Inc., creators of the patented Digital Flip® online publishing technology, announces today the release of FlipCity web service. FlipCity allow users to create FlipBooks instantly by uploading PDF files to their account. The FlipBook is powered by their latest digital publication reader FlipViewer® Xpress.

With just a few clicks, FlipCity converts your pdf documents into an interactive online FlipBook. What’s more, you will have your own Personal Library, where you can manage all your FlipBooks. It’s easy! Just upload your pdfs and get your FlipBooks instantly. Sign up for a free account at FlipCity (http://www.flipcity.com) and create as many Trial FlipBooks as you like to preview. You will only need to buy it when you are fully satisfied.

As an ideal way for reading a publication online, FlipViewer®Xpress features an intuitive page-flipping interface that lets readers “turn” pages, rapidly skim content and go directly to a certain page number — just like reading or browsing through a printed publication. While users are reading the current page, the next few pages are streaming into the PC, so every page is only a click away. Readers can immediately visit the publishers’ or advertisers’ Web sites by clicking on links on pages and advertisements inside the digital publication.

For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (65) 6258-6100, via email at flipcityadmin@ebooksys.com or online at http://www.flipcity.com/go/pages/ContactUs.aspx.

About E-Book Systems:
E-Book Systems (http://www.ebooksys.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of consumer products, computers and the Internet.

April 2008: Go ahead and flip the pages, whether of a newspaper or the latest glossy company report.

No, don’t do it with real paper – it’s so wasteful and you kill trees. Do it on your screen with an E-Book reader.

Visually, the reading experience is little different from holding a paperbound copy, except you can store everything neatly on your folders in your hard disk.

E-Book Systems, a Singapore-based software publisher, has seen its so-called book-flipping application used extensively by companies and publishers who enjoy the ease and economy of putting their content as computer display rather than the messy, expensive approach of printing on paper.

Last month, the Today newspaper (the freebie paper that you see stacked up outside MRT stations) becomes one of the latest to use E-Book.

After three months of development, vendor E-Book Systems and MediaCorp Press (publisher of Today) now offers EasyReader, a software platform that presents the newspaper that is virtually like real paper.

A major advantage of EasyReader is its offline access. Users can download the latest TODAY Digital Edition onto their notebooks to read on the go.

Another application using the browser is in annual reports, such as Max Capital Group’s 2007 report (picture).

Reading content on computer screens is painful to the eyes and numbing to the brain. This “unnatural” way of on-screen browsing motivated E-Book Systems co-founder and president, Dr Ho Seng Beng, to search for a more natural, more restful way to display information.

Understanding the aesthetics of the printed book and the sense of thumbing through a book volume, the former university lecturer turned entrepreneur helped found E-Book Systems in 1998.

The company’s core product is a book-like interface for a more positive on-screen reading experience.

The proliferation of electronic documents on the World Wide Web has led to a need for faster reading on screen.

E-Book Systems capitalized on this growing trend by offering its flipping platform. Its services also include document conversion (i.e. converting printed pages to electronic) and helping customers to customise their content.

Dr Ho mentions that E-Book Systems has worked with some of the best in the digital publishing industry such as Anchor Publishing which launched an e-lifestyle magazine (available in the on-line version) for the urban male called “Espresso” in 2007.

“We want to bridge the disparity between print and online publications and combine the best of both worlds with a familiar and easy to use creative presentation coupled with interactive viewer/reader experience,” says Dr Ho.

“With E-Book Systems’ Digital Flip Technology, we are able to bring life to digital content with its ability to integrate multimedia, and display it in a realistic 3D page flipping interface.”

The company’s main product, the FlipViewer Xpress, features an intuitive page-flipping interface that lets you turn pages, rapidly skim content and go directly to a certain page number — just like reading or browsing through a printed publication.

While you are reading the current page, the next few pages are streaming into the PC, so there is no lag time when you “flip” to the next page. You can immediately visit the publishers’ or advertisers’ Web sites by clicking on links on pages and advertisements inside the digital publication.

The latest version of FlipViewer Xpress can incorporate text, images, animation, sound and video into a single media-rich document. Offering Flash object support, FlipViewer Xpress allows the publisher to embed Flash interactive movies or animated advertisements in the FlipBook.

There is a DRM licence management control which has several levels of user permission to prevent data theft.

You can also share a digital book with a friend via e-mail. Your friend can simply read the book using a standard browser without installing any software.

Mr Akira Kamei, COO of E-Book Systems in Japan says initially people in the publishing industry were negative to FlipBook. “But after observing and using the FlipBook, many editors and creators have responded positively. The strong Digital Rights Management (DRM) functions also reinforce their conviction that their intellectual property rights are being protected”.

Adopters of the technology include publishing houses, trade magazines, retailers and media owners.

E-Book Systems also offers publishing tools to companies who want to convert printed publications into its digital 3-D page-flipping format. Customers include Pearson Scott Foresman, Softbank Japan, FHM Germany, CNET China, M2Media 360 and Max Capital Group.

If your company is thinking of using the Digital Flip Technology for newsletters, publications, and catalogues, it will cost you above S$500 for the licensing fee.

Publishers using FlipViewer include Singapore Press Holdings for MyPaper, Eastern Publishing (trade publishing) and Golden Dragon Publishing (lifestyle magazines).

Retailer customers include Carrefour Singapore for its online promotions brochure.

E-Book Systems is gearing towards the expansion phase and hopes to be listed by 2010. In the next few years, marketing efforts will be steered towards deeper penetration in existing markets like US, China, Japan, Korea, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Article extracted from Infocomm Singapore Portal

New Version of Company’s Patented Digital Flip® Technology is Compatible with All Web Browsers and Requires No Plug-in 

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–E-Book Systems, Inc., creators of the patented Digital Flip® online publishing technology, announces today the release of its new FlipViewer® Xpress 1.0 digital publication reader. FlipViewer® Xpress 1.0 allows users to view publications, such as magazines, books, newspapers, catalogs and manuals, within a digital 3-D page-flipping format called a FlipBook.

As an ideal way for reading a publication online, FlipViewer® Xpress 1.0 features an intuitive page-flipping interface that lets readers “turn” pages, rapidly skim content and go directly to a certain page number — just like reading or browsing through a printed publication. While users are reading the current page, the next few pages are streaming into the PC, so every page is only a click away. Readers can immediately visit the publishers’ or advertisers’ Web sites by clicking on links on pages and advertisements inside the digital publication.

The latest version of FlipViewer® Xpress has the ability to incorporate a combination of text, images, animation, sound and video into a single media-rich document. Offering Flash object support, FlipViewer® Xpress 1.0 allows the publisher to embed Flash interactive movies or animated advertisements in the FlipBook. This version is also equipped with DRM license management which controls a series of user permissions, zooming and even data encryption to prevent data theft.

Additionally, FlipViewer® Xpress 1.0 allows the user to share any digital publication they are reading with a friend via email. The recipients can simply read the digital publication via their standard browsers without installing any software.

“E-Book Systems’ continuing improvements to FlipViewer® allow consumers to take advantage of the latest enhancements in online publishing technology,” said E-Book Systems President Seng Beng Ho. “We are constantly updating our technology to best serve our customers.”

E-Book Systems has publishing tools available for companies who want to convert printed publications into its digital 3-D page-flipping format. The company also offers in-house conversion services. E-Book Systems’ customers include Pearson Scott Foresman, Softbank Japan, FHM Germany, CNET China, M2Media 360 and Max Capital Group Ltd.

For more information, contact E-Book Systems by phone at (408) 625-8000, via email at sales@ebooksys.com or online at http://www.flipviewer.com/.

About E-Book Systems

E-Book Systems (www.flipviewer.com, http://www.ebooksys.com/) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of consumer products, computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems’ products make use of its patented Digital Flip® technology to deliver multimedia content such as digital photographs, animations, text, audio and music via a 3-D page-flipping interface, which appears as a virtual book. These contents could be streamed or delivered online and offline through E-Book Systems’ OpenFlip™ format. E-Book Systems also offers Digital Rights Management, FlipBook tracking ASP services and Flip Enterprise solutions for publishers and corporations. E-Book Systems, a private on-going corporation has offices in Beijing, China and Singapore. E-Book Systems’ products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific Region, For more information, contact E-Book Systems at (408) 625-8000 or info@ebooksys.com.

Embedded multimedia features benefiting PB2X readers and advertisers

(Santa Clara, Calif. – August 7, 2007) E-Book Systems, the leader in Digital Flip® online publishing technology, announces that Paintball 2Xtremes magazine has adopted its 3-D page-flipping format for its online issues.

Paintball 2Xtremes (PB2X) is dedicated to being the leading provider of paintball news and information, delivered in the most cutting edge and technological formats available.

“We wanted to offer something different to our readers, and putting the magazine online in this format enabled us to provide them with a multimedia experience unlike any other paintball magazine,” said Cheryl Amaya, publisher of Paintball 2Xtremes. “We chose E-Book Systems’ technology because of all the extra elements it has allowed us to incorporate into publishing our digital issues.” Read More →

People love to shop. Show folks a nicely produced shopping catalog filled with gorgeous things to buy and sooner or later you’ll have customers beating down your door. It’s a retail fact – drum up the interest and people will respond. And nothing could be truer with catalog design.

The nicer-looking your content, the more appealing the photographs, the shorter but more informative the notes and price tags, and you’ve got a marketing tool like no other. In short, the more attention you give your catalog design, the more successful it will be in drawing people to your wares.

But hold on – we’re preaching to the choir here. If you’re in the retail and marketing business, the power of design is something you already understand like the back of your hand. Read More →

An annual report is quite often all that company shareholders ever read about their institution. With that in mind, wouldn’t it be great if you could produce an annual report that is more than just a bunch of graphs and numbers? Why settle for the same old boring read when you can spice up your annual report by making it paperless and fully interactive?

Interested? Let’s take a look at that digital publishing option called FlipBooks!

What’s a FlipBook?
A FlipBook is a cutting-edge digital document format that allows readers to view a computer-based publication just as they would if it were a real document in their hands. You see, through special 3D technology a FlipBook mimics its real world counterpart in that its pages actually “flip”, just as a real magazine or newspaper’s pages would each time you turn a page. Read More →

Magazine publishing companies have long since adapted to the internet by creating websites that publish some or all of the same content as their real world counterparts. But what if you could take your online publishing business to the next level? What if you had the tools to create a much more dynamic magazine online? FlipBook technology allows magazine publishers to create online versions of their magazines that look and act like offline magazines, but have the punch and advanced presentation tools of internet-based media.

By the late 1990s, magazine companies across the world realized one thing: if they were to survive as players in their respective magazine publishing fields, they had to embrace the internet and online publishing. No longer could a magazine be just an offline entity. There had to be a website people could access anytime, anywhere. And the bigger the magazine brand, the bigger the internet expectations. Read More →