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SaraRZ
Community Member
5 years ago

Best tool to make digital interactive ebooks

Hi,

I am using storyline to create courses based on some textbooks. The goal is to give students the chance to study the whole course books online (studying the lessons and doing the exercises).

I have started designing the courses using storyline, but it seems that it's going to be a very big project and it also takes a lot of time.

Actullay I need to change some textbooks with all their exercises to interactive digital books.

I was wondering if there are any other tools similar to storyline, to help me create the courses faster and that the output file is not big and can be easily embedded in a website.

  • Although its not the same flow as working in tools as Rise or Storyline, donot underestimate the power of Indesign. Especially when you have your copy ready... the plugin IN5 can create ebooks, digital magazines, flipbooks and more HTML5 compliant products with ease.

  • Have you explored Rise as an option?

    I am also looking for an interactive pdf that looks/behaves like an ebook, without the need to program in Indesign. Rise will not work for me since my needs are very simplistic. In an ideal world a nice template in MS Word would suffice except that I will need 15 or so tabs. Thank you for starting the thread!

  • Hello,

    Have you tried to do a search on 'interactive flipbooks'?  There are a number of options online that seem to be a good fit for what you are looking for.  A quick search will get you some good options.

    Regards,

    Melissa

  • I'll add my support for Rise.

    As a StoryLine "super fan" I didn't fully grasp the value of Rise until I set my pride aside and tried it out. Now, I'm in love with it. More importantly, my learners love it too.

  • GulshanNegi's avatar
    GulshanNegi
    Community Member

    Question is too much old but I think some tools are missing here. Well, there are lots of tools that you can use to make digital interactive ebooks some of them which are most popular are Adobe InDesign and PubCoder. 

    Thanks     

  • JoshMcqueen's avatar
    JoshMcqueen
    Community Member

    To my knowledge, there are several tools, such as iBooks Author, Kotobee Author, and Ridero, that can facilitate the creation of interactive ebooks faster than using Storyline, as they are specifically designed for this purpose - potentially reducing the time it takes compared to how long it takes to create the app from scratch. These tools offer features like multimedia integration and easy publishing, and the exact timeline will depend on the size and complexity of the materials.