New Image Editor

Creative Book Builder now integrates with new version of image editor supported by Adobe Creative Cloud.

More effects, frames, stickers, and overlays can be downloaded within the app for free.

More detail is here.

Creative Book Builder v3.6

New features:

1. Upload HTML5 book to FTP Server for hosting purpose

2. Move and copy group

3. Support external widgets for Fixed Layout Books

4. View trash of books in one interface

5. Upload & batch upload books to Box

6. Insert subscript and superscript

7. Convert Table To Rich Table

8. Convert List To Rich Table

9. New version of image editor

10. UI enhancement for photo picker

11. UI enhancement of resource library

12. Bug fix

Add interactive video widgets to your books

Embedded video in book can help us understand the content better. If people can interact with video, it brings more fun. How can we enrich the video ?

Creative Widget Builder v1.1 supports video related widgets: Video Slide, Video Question and Video Playlist.

Video Slide

When you record lesson in class, the presentation slide is not usually viewed clearly in video. Video slide widget can make video and presentation slide display side by side. Slide will be triggered at the proper time.

Here is the demo:

Video Question

Do you want to challenge others when they are watching your video? Video Question can insert multiple choice question at different time. Video will be stopped when question is about to display. After answering the question, video will be resumed.

Here is the demo:

Video Playlist

You can group a series of videos into one widget using Video Playlist. People can select video in the playlist.

Here is the demo:

Creative Book Builder v3.5

New features:

1. Share photos, video, audio or text from other apps into CBB using Share Extension

2. Fix the problem of external keyboard

3. Support iOS 9 multi-tasking (Split view and slide over)

4. Bug fix

Add your own games to your books

When your readers are reading your book for a long time, they may feel tired sometimes. If you add some games to the book, they can play the game to relax themselves. For students, learning game can help them understand the content easily.

So, is it possible to add games to your books? Creative Widget Builder (CWB) v1.1 makes it happen.

CWB v1.1 supports 2 games now:
1. Puzzle Game

2. Memory Matching Game

Puzzle Game

Puzzle Game splits photo into some parts and sorts parts in random order.

1. Tap + button and then select "Puzzle Game"

2. In "Add Puzzle Game" interface, type title and tap "Select Image"  to pick one image

3. Finally tap "Save" button

4. Tap settings icon to change style

5. View sample

Memory Matching Game

Memory Matching Game contains some pairs of photos and sorts them in random order. Player matches one pair at each time by selecting 2 photos until all the pairs are matched.

1. Tap + button and then select "Memory Matching Game"

2. In "Add Memory Matching Game" interface, type title and tap "Select Images" to pick some images

3. Finally tap "Save" button

4. Tap settings icon to change style

5. View sample

Please download Creative Widget Builder today.

Creative Book Builder Family

Creative Book Builder Family includes 5 apps: Creative Book Builder, Creative Widget Builder, Creative Book Reader, TouchAppCreator and TouchAppViewer.

The following diagram explains the relationship among Creative Book Builder Family's apps:

Creative Widget Builder generates widgets based on iBooks Widget format. Those widgets can be applied to iBooks Author, Creative Book Builder and TouchAppCreator as well.

Creative Book Builder is a powerful and professional tool to generate EPUB that can be read through any EPUB readers. Also, CBB can export book into HTML5 books that can be read through any web browsers. HTML5 books can include some widgets that cannot be used in EPUB, e.g. iframe, and embed html code. 

Creative Book Reader is an free app to read HTML5 books. It helps you distribute your HTML5 books easily.

TouchAppCreator allows everyone to create mobile optimized and content centric web app. The published web app can be added to Home Screen. It can import EPUB generated by CBB. On the other hand, CBB can import apps created by TouchAppCreator.

TouchAppViewer is also an free app to browse web app offline. It helps you distribute your web app easily.

Build Your Own Widgets

We are so excited to launch Creative Widget Builder app to let anyone build amazing widgets. All the generated widgets are easily imported into EPUB (Reflowable / Classic Book), iBooks, and HTML5 books. CWB also works with iBooks Author and Creative Book Builder.

At the first launch, CWB supports 5 types of widgets: Flash Card, Fill In The Blank, Matching Question, Sorting Question, and Interactive Image. Each widgets can be customizable in many ways. For more details, please visit CWB home page: https://getcwb.blogspot.com.

Why Creative Widget Builder?

CWB generates widget file with extension "wdgt" that is based on iBooks Widgets. It makes your widgets portable and reusable. You can focus on widget building on CWB and reuse widgets within books no matter you are using iBooks Author or CBB or other apps that support iBooks Widgets. You can also play widgets within CWB directly by switching to play mode.

It is just beginning. We will add more widgets in the future release. Please suggest us your favorite widgets on our forum.

How to insert widget into iBooks Author?

1. Open widget in CWB
2. Tap action button to select Export
3. Select one of cloud services, e.g. iCloud, Google Drive, etc.
4. On Mac, create new book or open existing book using iBooks Author
5. Unzip the widget zip file
6. Tap widget file (with extension ".wdgt"), say flash_card.wdgt
7. Drag and drop widget file into iBooks Author

How to insert widget into Creative Book Builder? (Please update the latest version of CBB)

1. Open widget in CWB
2. Tap action button to select Open In...
3. Select Creative Book Builder
4. Go to CBB, widget is saved to Resources Library
5. Go to the page, tap Resources Library, select the widget
OR
1. Go to the page in CBB
2. Tap + button and then select External Widget
3. Select one of the cloud services
4. Select widget zip file
5. Tap import button to import the file