Create Picture-Perfect ebooks
If you’re a self-published author who works with fixed layout ebooks and is wide, this is the best tool there is.
Pubcoder is like Indesign for epubs. In the past, I had to hand code epubs. I tried exporting from Indesign and also tried Apple’s Pages. But they all involved clean up and hand coding the media overlays. A real pain.
I was so happy to see this Appsumo deal because my trial had just expired. During the trial, I was able to turn eleven of my children’s picture books I had on Amazon into epubs for Apple, Google play, Kobo and for direct sales.
Direct sale is hard with fixed layout ebooks because the industry’s tool like bookfunnel doesn’t work well with fixed layouts (Readers basically get a PDF… Why?). For readers on iOS devices, epub works great because it can open on Apple’s Book app, but for Android user it’s all over the place, and some epub readers have issues with media overlays. With Pubcoder I can also offer readers the xpub format that will work with the free PubReader app.
I really like that I can work from one master file and create renditions for different stores or even translations. This would make translations easy and even doable for me. Updating back matter or fixing typos is easier since I fix it on the master file and can export all the different formats. Can even export only certain pages for samples. Time saver!
The read aloud wizard is great, but too hard to use at the word level. I wish there was a way to slow down audio? Or a way to adjust the smil timing manually within pubcoder? Please?
Angelo_PubCoder
May 9, 2024Hi, thank you for your review!
The slow down feature is available in the Mac version but not on the Windows version at the moment, for technical reasons.
The read aloud wizard actually generates a SMIL file that you can then manually edit from the page inspector at the right of the project window. You can even tag the text and write a SMIL manually, but that's a real pain and the reason we developed the wizard.