Touch Books Reader development has been discontinued.
Developed since autumn of 2008 till 2011, Touch Books Reader was a iPhone & iPad ebook app framework.
It allowed easy creation of standalone ebook apps, by bundling our own powerful in-house ebook reader together with the ebook content in html format(1 file per chapter), a table of contents plist xml, css stylesheets and images.
The resulting apps were universal, compatible with all iDevices and didn't require an internet connection to work.
Discontinued
Because of changes in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines and their policy towards pushing iBookstore as a medium for distributing ebooks, apps using the Touch Books Reader framework are unlikely to be approved for distribution on the AppStore.
For aspiring self-published writers, the best distribution medium for iOS is probably iBooks, for which books can be created using the free iBooks Author - Apple app.
Features
Just for nostalgia, here are a few of the features built into the Touch Books Reader framework.
Ads on demandWith just a setting, you'll enable Google AdMob integration. You can distribute your app for free and still make money from top Google-powered advertising.
In-App PurchaseEasily enable in-app purchase to unlock included content. You can have locked chapters or even books that can be unlocked by paying premium, extra premium content as future updates, etc..
- Multiple chapters & table of contents
- HTML power: formatted text, css styling, images, videos
- In-chapter search, full-body search
- Reading modes: night and day, customizable through CSS
- User font resize
- Autoscrolling (teleprompter)
- Readers can select fragments and bookmark them as quotes
- Quote navigation and quote social sharing
- Editable bookmark list
- Autobookmark of last read position
- Landscape and Portrait reading modes
- Page-by-page navigation with swipe or tap!
- News web page with update notification
- Popup with recent changes on first run since update
- Popup with "Ask for review" after a customizable number of days since install
- ... and more!
