thanks daniel for your inputs. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Drozdzewski < [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
