In this tutorial you are going to learn how to publish, protect, track and share a Live eBook.
Why Publish Your eBook as Live eBook
Without a doubt, formatting your eBook as a PDF has been the preferred choice for online sharing. PDFs offer a stable and universally compatible format that ensures your eBook's layout, fonts, and images remain intact across various devices and operating systems. This reliability, coupled with its ease of use, makes PDF the most widely used eBook format for seamless sharing and reading experiences.
However, if you want to share/sell an eBook that comes to life, allowing you to seamlessly embed audio and video, making your content more engaging than ever publish your ebook as a Live eBook - is the the future of digital reading!
With password security, you can confidently protect your valuable work, ensuring it reaches only the intended audience. Plus, with built-in Google Analytics integration, you gain powerful insights into reader engagement.
When you need more than a static PDF, choose the Live eBook for an interactive and secure reading experience that sets your content apart in the digital world.
1. Publishing Your Live eBook
Once you have finished creating your project click on the 'Publish' button in the bottom of the left sidebar.
A popup will open. Select the Live eBook option and click on 'Export'.
Note: Depending on your license level the options you see will vary. Publish to PDF is available with all plans.
Once the eBook is ready a new popup will open with the Live eBook link.
2. Protect and Track Your Live eBook
For those who want to track and protect their ebooks, you can now do that with the Live eBooks option.
Some new options have been added to the Publish settings.
All plans include the option to add a Title (1) and Author (2) to your ebook, while the other options are license specific.
Clicking on the '- More Options' link opens the additional settings. Here you can add a brief description of what the ebook is about (3), a Tracker ID for Google Analytics (4) and a password to protect the ebook (5). Live eBook Scroll – Choose whether the ebook scrolls horizontally or vertically (6). Customize Live eBook – Change the background color or image displayed behind the ebook pages (7).
Live eBook Scroll
When exporting a Live eBook, you can choose how readers navigate through the pages.
Under the export options, use the Scroll setting to select one of the following:
Horizontal Scroll – Readers move through the ebook page by page using left and right navigation.
Vertical Scroll – Readers scroll down continuously through the ebook, similar to reading a webpage.
Choose the option that best matches the reading experience you want to provide to your audience.
Customize Live eBook Appearance
The Customize Live eBook option allows you to personalize the appearance of the Live eBook viewer.
Click Customize Live eBook to open the customization window.
From here you can:
Change the background color of the viewer.
Add a background image behind the ebook pages.
Preview your changes before saving.
These settings affect the viewer environment surrounding the ebook pages, helping you match the Live eBook to your branding or website design.
Note: These options change the appearance of the Live eBook viewer only. They do not modify the content or design of the ebook pages themselves.
Publish the Live-eBook
Once the eBook is ready, click on 'Export'.
A popup will open with the Live eBook link. Copy the link and use it to open or share your ebook. This is the link you want to give to your readers.
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