Creating professional digital publications such as e-books and e-zines from a PDF is now within the reach of even the smallest of companies.
A new free online service converts PDF documents into a Flash publication that can be added to a web site or blog, distributed via email or saved to a digital storage device. yudufreedom.com is completely free and enables users to create top quality professional page-turning publications that include live links. Until now you were talking a significant outlay to create such digital publications.
Here’s my very quick example e-publication cobbled together in about five minutes. Yours will no doubt be much more professional, but this gives an idea of what is possible. Yudufreedom suggest just about anything in print is convertible, including:
· newsletters
· magazines
· brochures
· e-books
· reports
· CVs and portfolios
· and photo books
Whatever you decide to publish in this format can be created to allow the end user to read from page to page or skipped through backwards and forwards by selecting the page number or particular section of interest. Readers can also use a search tool to find particular keywords, add their own bookmarks and even write notes.
It should be realised that your publication is hosted by yudufreedom.com and accessible to the world. What you get after uploading your PDF is a link and a graphic to point your users directly to the publication on the yudufreedom site. There are, however, no pop up adds, merely a frontispiece to your publication pointing out its carbon neutrality.
Your new content is also bookmarkable to sites like DIGG, Newsvine and del.icio.us, and search engine friendly to enable in-bound links to your own site.
A subscription service is available to enable Yudu publishers to add video and sound, and to restrict access to content with password protection.
