It downloaded and installed okay and the serial number came quickly. All the options show as expiring in one month, so from then on you just get the basic program. That does mean if you want to do your book as an App you'd better type quickly. It does have good reviews so I'm giving it a go.

JohnL  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (0)

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JohnL, I honestly don't understand what you're saying.

To summarize, your license has a set of paid features that will last forever. Along with the license, there's a trial for "Kotobee Cloud" and "Kotobee Library" which would expire after 30 days. If we make a new release of Kotobee Author within 30 days, you're eligible for the upgrade.

JohnL, I honestly don't understand what you're saying. To summarize, your license has a set of paid features that will last forever. Along with the license, there's a trial for "Kotobee Cloud" and "Kotobee Library" which would expire after 30 days. If we make a new release of Kotobee Author within 30 days, you're eligible for the upgrade.
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Ayman  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+15)

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JohnL, the license does not expire, but you will be able to download free updates for just 1 month.

JohnL, the license does not expire, but you will be able to download free updates for just 1 month.
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Ayman  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+12)

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Still cant tell the software that you don't want to check for updates, so after the free update period is over, it will bug you everytime you start the program about that there is an update even though if you update your license will be invalid... Kinda annoying

Christian  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+12)

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Pro’s:

Download / installation / registration - no problems.

The programme seems easy enough to use and there's a lot of help - quick tour guide, interactive help, forums etc.
It has a preview that you can see what your book will look like on different devices.

Cons:

Importing pdf and epub failed a few times – it would say it had imported but all pages showed blank. In all cases it worked when I tried again - it just didn't work first time.

Importing a 10mb pdf that is cartoons created in landscape mode – tried to export it with the following results (this is a published book):
* epub format – created a 95mb file (published epub is 12mb)
* pdf format – create a portrait pdf output file of 23mb with every picture simply chopped in half. (I couldn't find a setting to change the output to landscape mode and had ticked a block that said fit to screen but it must do something else.)

Expensive compared to other publishing software and very expensive especially for mobile exports because it limits the amount of apps you can create - and then I guess you're going to pay every time you release an update.

Built-in advertising locked to only use Google’s Admob.

PDF export removes interactive elements – i.e. your links won’t work.

JJ  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+12)

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Here is an easy Quick Guide to get you started:
http://support.kotobee.com/en/support/solutions/articles/8000027851-beginner-s-guide-to-kotobee-author

Ayman  –  7 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+10)

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