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Mark Ambachtsheer

Charles J Migos

Yaniv Gur

Jacob Grundtvig Refstrup

Jay Christopher Capela

Roger Rock Rosner

Markus Hagele

Gary William Gehiere

Peter William Rapp

Peter Berger

David M Hall

Christopher Erich Rudolph

Diego Bauducco

Alexander C MacLean

Paul B Elseth

Steven J Israelson

Simon Antony Ward

M Frank Emanuel

Mac Murrett

Martin James Murrett

Allison M Styer

Alastair Kenneth Fettes

Xiang Cao

Eugene R Siew

Peter G Berger

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book.

Authoring content for digital books

A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.

Interactive content for digital books

Methods and devices are provided. A method includes at an electronic device with one or more processors, a display, and memory, displaying, by the display, a playback position indicator for a media file; receiving, by the electronic device, a user input for adjusting a position of the playback position indicator from a first position of the media file to a second position of the media file; and in response to receiving the user input, displaying, by the display, a snippet from a document corresponding to content of the media file at the second position of the media file.

Media playback navigation

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