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Overview:
If you have a book you’d like to offer as a native application for mobile devices or tablets, such as the iPad, iPhone, or Android devices, we can get you up and running fast.
Features:
- Digital eBook with unlimited pages
- Runs as a native application on major mobile platforms such as iOS (iPad, iPhone) and Android
- Native application formats supported include iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm, WebOS, Windows Mobile 7, Bada, and Symbian
- Make your app available for purchase or as a free download via the mobile platform’s stores such as the iOS App Store or Android Marketplace
- eBook will have page flipping animations between pages
- Optionally add audio for narrated books or background music for each page
- Allow users to quickly jump between pages
- Optionally have a start menu screen with options to read the book, visit your website, or see an information page that can be used to share something about the book, author, or otherwise.
- We can manage submission of the application for the mobile device platforms as an option, or we will provide the compiled application for you to submit (see Other Details below)
Requirements:
- You must provide each “page” of the book individually as a JPG file
- You must provide any narration or background music as an MP3 file individually for each page
- If you chose to have a home screen / menu page you must provide a JPG with the background image for the page, as well as the URL for your website and optionally a JPG to use to show as an “About” page.
- If you will manage the submission to the mobile device platforms, you may need to provide us with certificates for use in testing and compiling the application. If you do not know how to do this, we’d strongly recommend having us manage application store submissions for you.
- If we manage the submission to the mobile device platforms, payment for purchases of your application will come to us (as required by the mobile platform vendors). On a monthly basis we will then pay you for your sales minus our management fee (see pricing below). We make payments only to verified PayPal accounts.
Other Details:
When distributing native applications on mobile platforms, the applications must be submitted to through the mobile platform’s stores. During this process the application is uploaded, and details around the pricing and payment for the application is done.
We can provide you with a compiled application that you can then submit yourself. This puts you in control of the submission process, selling price, and allows you to recieve direct payment from application sales.
There are costs associated with being able to submit applications to these platforms. There are also technical requirements and knowledge needed. If you would prefer not to have to setup and manage this, we can do it for you as we maintain accounts with the major platform vendor distribution systems.
If we manage this for you, we will take $1 or 30% of the selling price, whichever is less, from each sale. The remaining profit will be paid to you via PayPal monthly.
Some mobile device stores also take a portion of the selling price as part of their store model. For instance, Apple pays 70% of the selling price of each application, keeping 30% for themselves. If we manage the iOS application submission for you, your profit would be your selling price, minus 30% for Apple’s fees, minus $1 or 30% (whichever is less) for our fee.
Some mobile stores have restrictions on the content that can be submitted it if is not suited for general, all-ages audiences. If we feel your submission may not be accepted we will let you know when we evaluate your project for submission.
Pricing:
- Digital eBook, without narration – $30 for 1 platform
- Digital eBook, with narration – $50 for 1 platform
- Digital eBook, without narration – $10 per additional platform
- Digital eBook, with narration – $10 per additional platform
- [Optional] Submission to Apple iTunes App Store – $25
- [Optional] Submission to Android Marketplace – $15
- Fee for application sales for iTunes App Store or Android submissions that we manage – 30% of sale price or $1 per sale, whichever is less. No fee for applications that are made available for free
How It Works:
- Submit your files to us online using a simple web form
- We will evaluate your project and contact you with any questions if needed
- We will invoice you, via PayPal, for the creation of the application
- Upon receiving payment we will begin creation of your eBook, which in most cases will be ready in 3-5 working days (weekends and public USA holidays not counted).
- The compiled application(s) will be delivered to you for testing and confirmation
- If you will be using our services for submission to the mobile application platform stores, we will then invoice you via PayPal for the submission services, and upon payment will submit the applications
- If we manage the application submission, on a monthly basis we will send you a report with details of your sales, as well as will send you a payment via PayPal with you profits from the sales (minus the mobile store’s and our fees, as outlined above)
- Everyone is happy!
There is no commitment to pay for us to evaluate your project, so why not submit your project for us to review today!