You mail want to take a look at the Hal Media reader: https://market.android.com/details?id=Jt.android:
Hal Medial Player and Virtual Assistant features several capabilities including voice commands, music player, document reader (eReader with voice), voice synthesis, location/GPS tracking, Caller ID and safer driving (beta). It is designed to avoid looking at the phone screen and minimize distractions. On 1/17/12, Diego Moreira Rosa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
