What ebook compiler software would be best for business?

and you will see that the Adobe Acrobat PDF format is supported on ALL PLATFORMS (except Azbooka WISEreader and Amazon's Kindle 1 both of which have negligible impact.

Plain text is supported on ALL platforms but you would loose the ability to format text (bold, italic, large, small, colored, etc.) although you could likely use the Rich Text Format which would be supported on most if not all platforms, and with Rich Text (the RTF file extension) you would have formatting and the ability to use graphics.

HTML format would be next best supported as most of the readers include a web browser that understands that format.

The second chart lists the platforms down the left side and the various formats across the top in case you don't understand which is what.

Making the material available on your web site would still require you to have it in a format that the reader could read so your limitations would still be much the same although you could easily have many links to the same document in many different formats to satisfy ALL the various platforms.

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As Kees is alluding to

by Jimmy Greystone - 3/19/12 6:20 AM

In Reply to: What ebook compiler software would be best for business? by yamash2

As Kees is alluding to, there is no one ebook format, so that's problem #1 with what you want to do. You could create a report in the ePub format, and then use a program like Calibre to convert to MOBI, then you'd probably end up capturing about 99% of the world's ebook readers being able to read one or the other format. There's also PDF, which isn't an ebook format, strictly speaking, can be opened on most tablets and smartphones... With the right software.

There any particular reason you can't just distribute the report as a link to a website? That would be far more universal. Tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, they all have web browsers, and as long as you don't try getting too carried away with all the pointless gimmicks (the Cnet site here can be considered a good example) that really serve no useful function beyond trying to show off, it should work pretty well on anything from your average smartphone to a full fledged desktop. And technically, when you get down to it, all ebook formats are really just HTML files. The different formats just specify a different subset of HTML features that are supported.

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Good Point.

by yamash2 - 3/19/12 6:33 AM

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That sounds like a good idea. How would I learn to do that? As you can tell I'm just learning about all this. IThanks so much for your answer. It was very helpful.

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Re: how to do that

by Kees_B - 3/19/12 6:36 AM

In Reply to: Good Point. by yamash2

1. Put that report on the company website. Your website designer can tell you what he needs to make it look nice.
2. Mail a link to that page to everybody you want to read it.
3. Don't forget to put the link on your homepage also, so that other people can see it and read that report (if you want it to be publicly available).

Kees