The first tablet-based software platform for creating interactive book apps
Demibooks® Composer is the first iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books.If you’re an author, illustrator, designer or publisher, and you’ve got a story to tell – then this app is for you! Composer is affordable, versatile and incredibly easy-to-use.
Create your own book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects. Share your stories with your friends via Composer or use our PrintShop web service to publish your book app back to the App Store!
Demibooks Composer allows you to harness the touch functionality of the iPad, and bring those features to your book app designs. Composer offers designers and authors a full set of tools and options for building interactive content, without requiring any programming.
Here’s a video that shows an overview of Composer’s features:
Advantages of Demibooks®Composer:
iPad-based authoring process
Demibooks® Composer is the only authoring software on the market for creating book apps on the device itself. In this design, the interactive nature of the book app is extended into the creative process. This means the entire authoring process is interactive.
Taking advantage of the intuitive features of the iPad, Composer utilizes similar pinch, swipe, and touch gestures, drop-down menus, and basic functionalities. By creating the book app on the device, you can see how your book app will read on the product itself, to see what works best, versus desktop software which requires users to toggle between a desktop version and what it looks like on the device.
Code-free
Creating book apps from scratch involves knowing difficult code, graphic design, and user experience design. Composer minimizes the amount of technical know-how you need, thus allowing anyone to become a storyteller and author. Composer is specifically designed for users who have little to no technical or graphic design expertise. It’s simple enough for a first-time or seasoned author to pick up. Creating a book app also becomes a great experience to share between a parent and child.
Superior Feature Set
Demibooks® Composer was designed by seasoned game developers, mobility engineers, and user experience designers who built in a feature set to fuel today’s most dynamic imaginations. Composer leverages the iPad’s touch interface, sound recording ability, camera, touch interface, and more with an advanced set of special effects to fully bring your book to life. Using Composer’s “Physics” function, you can make objects float or bounce around the page or assign objects real-life properties such as gravity or stickiness which is triggered when readers touch the object. Composer’s “Behaviors” feature set allows you to customize basic movements and animations. Other features allow you to layer in audio, video, and other special effects to your illustrations to truly create an interactive reading experience.
Affordable
Contracting with book app consultants can cost upwards of 50K. Demibooks® Composer was designed to be affordable to both publishers and first-time users who are interested in tapping into their creative juices by crafting their own book app. Demibooks offers several packages, from singular apps to multiple apps centered on a bestselling series or character.
What Authors and Publishers are Saying about Demibooks® Composer:
“Demibooks made our first enhanced ebook possible, providing the tools (literally) to seamlessly adapt and preserve our book’s charm and artistic integrity.” –Kira Lynn, Publisher of Kane Miller Books, a division of EDC Publishing, on the book app A Garden for Pig
“As primarily a print designer, Demibooks has enabled me to cross-over to the multimedia world of ebooks. The user interface was fairly simple and the effects included were powerful and brought our book to life. I would definitely recommend Demibooks to any graphic designer interested in a comprehensive tool to create and publish professional level ebooks.” –Kat Goddard, designer at Kane Miller Books, a Division of EDC Publishing
“One of the simplest, most elegant tools for rapid prototyping and graphic design on any platform. Composer leverages the unique qualities of the iPad, while giving authors powerful tools to create amazing reading experiences … without knowing any software code!” –John Marc Green, author and illustrator of Steampunk Chess Puzzles
“I’ve been developing my project idea for a long time, and Composer has been the perfect tool to finally bring it to life. It was exciting to see one on my characters, an astronaut, float around in space using the “Physics” feature and its various settings. And I love that you can guide the astronaut through space using a swipe of your finger. Demibooks® Composer is a powerful publishing application that lets me focus on the art and storytelling without getting bogged down in the technical aspects of coding.” –Dave Opie, coauthor of Did the Big Bang Make a Sound? Simple Answers to Cosmic Questions, www.spacemandave.com
“Composer brought our imagination to life and opened our minds to new ways of interacting with our children.” –Branden Hart, co-author of the children’s picture book app, A is vir Aardvark
With Demibooks Composer, we enable our customers to create and publish richly interactive book apps faster and in cost effective ways. We hope this contributes in a positive way to the industry’s ongoing search for viable business models as it slowly but surely embraces the shift to interactive reading on digital platforms.
