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Enhanced eBook Formats and Features

KiteReaders produces its enhanced eBooks in new and exciting fixed-layout eBook formats released by Apple, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Learn more about the features supported by these formats below.

Children’s Picture Books on iPad and iPhone within Apple’s iBook App	Barnes & Noble Nook Kids – Picture Books with Read & Listen Option
iBooks Read Aloud eBook Demo	Nook Color – Kids Read & Listen Demo
iBook Sample	Nook Kids Sample
Apple’s iBooks app (available in the App Store for iPhone, iPad, & iPod Touch), supports fixed-layout ePub & starting June’11 offers a new feature that allows young readers to follow along with their favorite children’s books as the words are read aloud. Words may also be highlighted as they’re read. By default, the pages turn automatically to keep the session flowing, but a parent can set them to turn manually to further involve the new reader. A tap on the screen produces controls in the upper-right corner of iBooks to customize a child’s reading and listening experience. At the end of Q3 2011, iBooks has recorded 180M book downloads.	Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, a reader tablet launched in Fall 2010 supports fixed-layout ePub with read-aloud. With just a simple tap, a child controls the story and can jump into an interactive adventure. Expanding text and zooming into pictures makes reading extra fun. It’s an exciting and immersive book-reading experience for kids of all ages. Even the youngest readers can be independent when they choose “Read To Me” to hear the story read aloud. Barnes & Noble has sold more than a few million Nooks (estimate) since its launch.

Supported Features: Full page fixed layout rendering that mirrors the printed book page design 3D book effect with page flip animation Pinch & zoom Custom font support in scalable vector format Text seperate from the images – enables text searches & dictionary lookups Read aloud with autoplay Word highlighting with Read aloud Animations and interactions	Supported Features: Full page fixed layout rendering that mirrors the printed book page design Pinch & zoom on images Read aloud with autoplay Zoom selected text and play read aloud segment for the selected text
Amazon Kindle Fire – Picture Books
	Amazon’s announced on October 21, 2011 that will support fixed layout eBooks in vivid colors on its upcoming Kindle Fire* tablet and publisher could use its Kindle Format 8 (KF8) to create the eBooks based on picture books and more. KF8 promises to support embedded fonts, scalable vector graphics, fixed layout, and text on background images; making it ideal for rendering picture books on Kindle Fire. While the details of Kindle’s fixed format are still unknown; appPress will develop technology to support KF8 soon after the details are known.* Estimated launch date Nov 15, 2011. At launch Fire will not support Read Aloud option.