Note: The software referenced in this article is no longer available.
Desktop Author is a publishing tool for authors/publishing houses looking to create great looking ebooks. The software offers WYSIWYG layout of magazines, brochures, photo albums, cards, and books optimized for screen presentation. Convert Digital Web Books into HTML layouts for Web presentation, without needing to do additional HTML coding. Integrate DRM and a payment gateway right in the book to give you a store right inside your publication. Pages turn with realistic 3D functionality, giving the Desktop Author Digital Web Book format a visual edge over PDF and LIT formatted digital text. Link to external Web pages inside the book, pop-up larger versions of images, and optimize text for onscreen reading. Desktop Author provides all the advantages of page layout features for print publishing with visual presentation meant for PC screens.
- Publish to Web and built-in FTP upload
- Integrated DRM and Payment Gateway
- Compact file sizes for finished books
- Automated system for creating digital photo albums
- WYSIWYG page customization and editing
- Built-in Image Browser, Image Editor, and Image Manipulator
- Quick linking to Web sites, movies, and audio
- Email to a friend feature
- Survey generation using Easy Forms tool
- Allow users to print pages or disable the print function
