OK, please don’t get too excited just yet, but I’m looking at publishing another version of our eBooks for the Apple iPhone and iTouch. As well as helping us to further spread the use of our books, I figure it’s a great way to convince my wife that I really do need an iPhone for ‘work’!
Will our books work on the iPhone? I’m not too sure. I think the screen area may be too small, but we might as well give it a try.
I’m based in Australia and we don’t have the iPhone here yet, so I’m looking for people already using the iPhone/iTouch to help me out a little to finalize the book design.
We’ll need to do a little toing and froing to work out what looks best. I want to attempt a PDF version so we’ll need to work on things like getting the right page size, headings and body text size, whitespace, etc.
If you’re keen and would like to help to get the design right, please add your details at the bottom of this post or email me at richard AT planetebook DOT com.
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I would totally love some way to read eBooks on my iTouch. You used to be able to rig something up using the Notes feature on other iPods, so you could plop in some text files, but that feature seems to be gone with the iTouch. …There’s a Notes sort of feature, but that’s more of an on the go, jot stuff down sort of thing. Anywho, I digress. The eBooks thing should work pretty well on the iTouch / iPhone. You might want to make sure that the app rotates when you turn your iPod, so that you can read sideways, which makes things easier. You could probably get away with a size 8 type face with no problems. The iTouch/iPhone also has a lot of apps that have a thansparent menu appear a the top of the page when you tap it, so that could work for moving through the chapter / forward / back, etc, and then leave the regular window open for reading. Mayabe a zoom option in the little tap on/off menu. with text that will wrap automatically so you don’t have to scroll to the side. Anyways, just my thoughts.
Hey ,
I am new to the whole ebooks on itouch thing.
But at the itunes app store, there is a free-downloadable application which enables you to get text files from the net, download them to the i touch/i phone and read away.
The program is called ‘Stanza’.
The only thing i cannot for the life of me figure out, is, how do you find these books on the net and actually download them for FREE?
because sources say it can be done…