2014年6月23日星期一

Flipbook VS PDF: why the interactive reading experience is so important?

For some time, PDF as a new way for content delivery has been proved to be convenient and effective. PDF documents, as known to us, take small space in the digital format yet they contain a large amount of information. And because of its advantages, PDF has been used as eBook, e-Catalog, e-Magazine, e-Brochure and kind of that. However, that is a past tense when there were no other better solutions and as a matter of fact, PDF file has its drawbacks.



What are the disadvantages of PDF files?

# Lack of interactivity – all content is written in plain pages
# Must-have installation of Adobe Reader – require a third-party software
# Insufficiency of flexibility – not easy to edit and update content
# Unsearchable text content – the content is not SEO friendly
# Poor user experience – need to scroll down to read


Nowadays, as technology develops, people's needs increase as well. Reading a dull PDF magazine or catalog is quite boring, and readers will away from your publication because it fails to offer interactive reading experience. However, a flipbook can spare you all these troubles. By converting your PDF to flash magazine, flipbook, or page flipping catalog, you can make your publication more attractive and interactive, therefore, inspiring readers to read your content.


So how can flipbooks attract readers? From the original purpose, PDF to flipbook converters is to convert PDFs to flash publications with interactive page flip reading experiences, making publications more engaging and fashionable. Content is no longer written in endless scrolling pages, but in impressive and realistic page turning pages that give readers an experience of reading real books. And flipbooks allow readers to read through the whole book in various navigation ways: mouse drag, mouse wheel, page turn buttons, thumbnails, etc. Besides, flipbooks can delight readers with rich media, video, audio, image gallery, flash, text and so on. In additional, the flipbook can reach global readers via Internet, all readers need is a connected browser. And the content of flipbooks is searchable text, which means the content is SEO friendly and is easily crawled by search engines and readers.

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