By the end of the day you will have a good overall understanding of the different formats so you can choose which to use for your purpose. You’ll be able to add all the rich-media and interactive elements, export and view them in reader apps. You will be ready start producing and distributing exciting engaging digital publications.

With the explosion of smartphones and tablets people are increasingly reading media digitally and enjoying rich-media and interactive elements; like video and audio, animations, slideshows, hyperlinks, interactive buttons and page turns.

This interactivity and rich-media is revolutionizing the reading and learning experience; livening-up learning materials and guides, marketing brochures, internal-communications and training guides, and enriching a whole range of ebooks (childrens books, novels, travel guides, how-to guides, cookery books, etc.) with videos, interactivity and animation.

Adobe InDesign has all the tools you need to create exciting new rich-media digital publications in all the main formats; EPUB, Interactive PDF, HTML5, SWF and more. There’s a whole array of apps for making digital publications, we’ll explain the many advantages of using InDesign and we’ll introduce Adobe publishing-industry-leading plugin for InDesign; Digital Publishing Suite, with which you can create tablet applications to deliver monetized publications to any device.

Unlike a website, digital publications are downloaded, stored and returned to. They can be sold as ebooks or distributed free and they’re usually better looking, more useful and more substantial than web pages or blog posts.  

On this mainly practical course we will teach you how to add video and audio, animations, slideshows, hyperlinks, cross references, interactive buttons and page turns to your publications. We will convert a print publication to the two epub formats; Reflowable and FXL and export them and view them on ebook readers.

We will cover the range of methods for distributing your finished digital publications, from emailing interactive PDFs or hosting them on your website, publishing online, producing apps for devices and selling ebooks through online stores like Amazon.

This is mainly a practical course but we will also cover the otherwise-confusing issue of formats, devices and file types. As a relatively new field there’s still a variety of digital publication formats and they don’t all support all the interactivity and rich-media, the devices they’re being viewed on come in many screen sizes and portrait and landscape orientation, there’s different apps for viewing the different formats on different devices and the apps don’t all support all the interactivity and rich media. On this course we will outline all these choices to help you decide which format is best for you to deliver the experience you want your users to have.