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 →

FlipBooks are the next wave in digital publishing. Whereas people commonly think that PDFs are the pinnacle of online document presentation, FlipBooks come into play, challenging the notion of how online magazines or books can be published and marketed. With advanced 3D technology that simulates traditional “page flipping” while reading as well as providing unique DRM (Digital Rights Management) solution for copyright protection, FlipBooks are fast becoming a popular and trusted document presentation format.

To many people, a FlipBook is a multi-paged book with a set of pictures on each sheet that collectively looks like a moving cartoon when the pages are flipped quickly. It’s books like these that got many an artistic grade school student the approval of his classmates… and the ire of his teacher who didn’t appreciate notebooks being made into moving cartoons.

But how about this new digital publishing FlipBook technology that’s suddenly all so hot and cutting edge? Read More →

Readers can now access free download to view entire catalog in a dynamic, 3-D page-flipping format

(SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 30, 2007) E-Book Systems, the leader in Digital Flip® online publishing technology, announces today that Christianity Today International has adopted its 3-D page-flipping format for its online catalog. As one of the top Christian online destinations, Christianity Today International offers publications and products that appeal to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from senior pastors to families and college-bound teens.

With E-Book Systems’ Digital Flip® technology, readers can automatically download FlipViewer® or Mac FlipViewer® to read the digital catalog. In a matter of moments, readers can view the entire catalog just as it appears in the printed version — with real “flipping” pages. Read More →

New version of company’s patented FlipViewer® features improvements to FlipViewer® Library

(SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March 28, 2007)- E-Book Systems, Inc., creators of the patented Digital Flip® online publishing technology, announces today the release of its FlipViewer® 4.0 digital publication reader.  FlipViewer® allows users to view publications, such as magazines, books, newspapers, catalogs and manuals, within a digital 3-D page-flipping format.

As an ideal way for reading a publication online, FlipViewer® 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.  Users can also perform keyword searches, bookmark pages, highlight passages and add comments using a virtual notepad.  Readers can immediately visit the publishers’ or advertisers’ Web sites by clicking on links on pages and advertisements inside the digital publication. Read More →

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

(SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 28, 2006) E-Book Systems, the leader in Digital Flip® e-publishing technology, announces that Bluebook International Inc. is issuing the Homeowner and Professional Cost Guides using its Web-based 3-D page-flipping format.

Bluebook provides accurate “on demand” residential cost analysis & value reports for nearly 91 percent of the nation’s single family residences. With over 90,000 customers using their property cost data services, Bluebook is now offering both the Homeowner Cost Guide and Professional Guide in E-Book Systems’ FlipBook format. Read More →

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

(SANTA CLARA, Calif. — August 15, 2006)- E-Book Systems, the leader in Digital Flip® e-publishing technology, announces that Latitude 38, a Northern California sailing magazine, has adopted its 3-D page-flipping format. Latitude 38 can now offer sailors the ability to access the publication while out at sea and sailing all over the world.

Since 1977, Latitude 38 has championed a way of life with a style unique among sailing magazines. With the largest distribution of any marine publication in Northern California, Latitude 38 is now offering its sailing magazine in E-Book Systems’ format. Read More →