Introduction to iPhone/iPad
Digital Contents Viewer Application

Since Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad are introduced, we expect to experience real digital reading with their larger screens. By the way, how about iPhone and iPod Touch with smaller screens? iPhone and iPod Touch are superior in terms of mobility. We can compensate the weakness by preparing a small screen-size-conscious reading materials.

For contents read from top to bottom, we can avoid horizontal scrolling and provide a short material in length. An example is a document consisting a set of pages each containing a small picture and a short exaplanation about the picture.

Here are hints about digital documents suitable for reading with iPhone or iPod Touch:

• Ordinary books: novels, non-fictions, poems, photo books, how-to books.
• Ordinary magazines: fashion, sports, travel guides, food, cooking and restaurant guides.
• Promotion materials: free sample chapters of a book, catalog of items and advertizement.
• Handy book: product manual, operating manual and quick guide you can check while you are out.
• and others

Here are some potential examples of works distributable with Kobu.Com's reader application:

• Text only (HTML/XHTML)
• Illustrations and pictures with text (HTML/XHTML + PNG/JPG)
• Comics (PNG/JPG)
• Preformated pages with sophisticated layout can be incorporated as images.

Kobu.Com's iPhone digital document reader application is built using the web rendering engine (WebKit) used by the iPhone web browser (Safari). Therefore, the contents of a digital book or a reference material can be prepared as familiar web contents.

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The digital book content is incorporated into the book reader application package. Unlike the case where your document is distributed alone, unauthorized duplication of the contents can be avoided In addition, no network access is required while reading the book, eliminating unnecessary burden on iPhone users.

• Content seen on the Web can be incorporated into the application without modification.
• You can readily incorporate Epub content into KobuReader since KobuReader supports full HTML/CSS.
• Prevents illegal copy of the source files. Your source files are scrambled and packaged into a single delivery file and copied into the document area of the device on the first invocation.
• Has mechanisms for incorporating multiple language contents in one application package.

• This application can display a bundled Web-based contents on iPhone, iPodTouch and iPad
• Major file formats: HTML, XHMTL, CSS, PNG, JPEG and others
• HTML5 video and audio playback
• Application buttons: Next page, Previous page, Back, TOC, Index and No-rotate buttons
• Rotation support
• Remeber the last-viewed page