What is a fixed-layout read-aloud conversion with interactivity and highlighting?

Glad you asked. This is Fact Factory.
(This isn’t a video. It’s the actual ebook.)

 
  1. Click a page
    (Give it a few seconds to load)
  2. Click play ▶
  3. Click an audio icon 00

  • Fixed-layout means it looks like the print version.

  • Read-aloud means there’s a human person reading the book to you (not computerized text-to-speech)

  • Read-aloud highlighting means the words light up as the human narrator says them.

  • Conversion means these usually start as print files – usually InDesign, but sometimes other formats, such as PDF. Fact Factory is both a print magazine and an e-magazine. The e- version is made from the print files.

  • Interactivity means the kid can interact with the book. Yes, I know – kids interact with books by reading them. But the term was coined by people who know more about tech than about books. For Fact Factory, interactivity looks like little buttons that wiggle when the page loads. For Scholastic Books, it looks like balloons that pop up when a kid clicks on an interesting word, and the balloons have word definitions and audio pronunciations in them.

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