eTextbookSuite™

eTextbookSuite combines an eTextbook workspace for students with the software required by authors to create eTextbooks.

eTextbookViewer™

An environment designed to allow students to make effective use of electronic textbooks - providing facilities for note-taking, cross-referencing, bookmarking and searching of the text of the book, web pages associated with it and the notes that you've made about it.

eTextbookCreator™

An environment designed to allow authors and lecturers to produce eTextbooks and courseware for use by students in eTextbookViewer.

eTextbookViewer™

Feature summary

• eTextbook library
• Browse and manage eTextbooks from a single place
• Open eTextbooks downloaded from eTextbookShop.com and also any ebook which conforms to the Open ebook specification
• Download and install additional eTextbooks from eTextbookShop.com
• Multiple topic browsing
  • keep as many topics as you like open at any time
  • easily flick between topics
  • browse to websites referenced in the textbook
• Note-taking
  • create rich text annotations against any topic
  • highlight topic content and associate highlights with annotations
  • organise annotations by user-defined categories
  • export annotations to your word processing software for essay writing and exam cramming
• Searching
  • search in individual books, or in all books in your library
  • search in topics or annotations or both
  • highlight search text in displayed topics
• Bookmarks
  • create bookmarks for any topic or website page
  • organise bookmarks by user-defined categories
  • create a set of bookmarks for a particular subject matter or assignment

eTextbookCreator™

Feature summary

• import from Microsoft Word^®, HTML source or an existing Open eBook
• generate and modify Contents structure and Index entries
• add author annotations (sidenotes) to topics
• define which topics are to remain unencrypted, to allow reader evaluation
• create an encrypted rich content eTextbookViewer compatible package

Author benefits

For further information about the benefits to authors of using eTextbookCreator, please visit the For authors section of our book distribution site, eTextbookShop.

System requirements

• 800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or equivalent) minimum
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
  • automatically downloaded during installation
  • requires Internet Explorer 5.0.1 or later
• 128 MB RAM minimum (512 MB recommended)
• 35 MB available disk space