Amazon presents software “Kindle Textbook Creator” – buchreport

The Apple three years ago ” iBooks Author “presented a murmur went through the textbook sector, wanted the Group but not less than reinvent the textbook. Now competitor Amazon has developed software can bring out the teachers and professors on their own textbooks and course materials – but follows a different approach

The software “ Kindle Textbook Creator ” Mac or Windows teachers and authors PDFs can be converted into digital textbooks. The digital books and course materials can only be read on the Kindle Apps (for iPad, Kindle Fire, iPhone and Android devices, Mac and PC), not classical e-readers (like the Kindle). These are sold textbooks on Amazon, but the company promises the authors account for up to 70%.

Currently the software is available in the Open Beta phase and only in English. Amazon wants to extend the functionality of successively currently following functions are available:

• text passages in different colors mark
• text passages, pictures and bookmarks digital in a notepad
• flashcards with teaching materials create
• Definitions and Wikipedia entries Look

” Kindle Textbook Creator “seems to be designed curriculum to publish quickly and publishers to open up an opportunity to provide their content for the Kindle universe available while competing product” iBooks Author “is intended textbooks from scratch for Create, TechCrunch analyzed the different approaches of Amazon and Apple. Apple trying to persuade the authors to develop digital-first-books, while Amazon wants to convince them already provide existing content for the textbook market.