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Vine Flip: Transform your Vine videos into a flipbook. 22 February '13, 07:37pm Follow If you needed another reason to use Vine — the new iOS app from Twitter that helps users record and share six second looping videos — then Vine Flip just might be the answer. Co-founded by serial entrepreneurs Robin and Brad Yeager, Vine Flip allows anyone who uses the video sharing app to convert their uploaded shorts into a pocket-sized flipbook. The pair says each book is about the size of a standard business card, and will vary in quality depending on the Vine (it’s worth remembering that each Vine is only 480×480 in resolution).

To start, users register on the Vine Flip website and hit ‘start an order’ from the top of the screen. Type in the URL of the Vine itself, pick from one of three covers and specify the number of copies you would like delivered – and you’re all done. Flipbooks are nothing new, but applying it to one of the most popular mobile apps of the moment is probably a recipe for success. ➤ Vine Flip. EPUB. EPUB (short for electronic publication; sometimes styled ePub) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale.

It supersedes the Open eBook standard.[2] History[edit] EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.[3] In August 2009, the IDPF announced that they would begin work on maintenance tasks of the EPUB standard.[4] Two broad objectives were defined by this working group: "One set of activities governs maintenance of the current EPUB Standards (i.e. Features[edit] File format[edit] Version 3.0.1 (current version)[edit] Version 2.0.1[edit] <? .opf file <? .ncx file <? Turn.js: Make a flipbook with HTML5. What'sin it for me - EU programme guide on Education, Culture programme.

FlippingBook - Software for making modern digital publications (html5 and flash) with page flipping effect.