Realview

Realview also expands their products and services into the booming social media market, with the release of the Flipbook Facebook App. Designed as a permission-based marketing and information mining tool, the Facebook App helps publishers leverage their social media following across other online platforms. With all of Realview’s digital publishing products working in complete unity, publishers are afforded the ease of being able to upload their PDFs once and have their publication dynamically update on every platform. This year saw a strong focus on mobile web optimization, with Realview’s first of a kind HTML mobile article viewer launched for community newspapers. For a high-quality product, text and images were meticulously extracted from a print-ready PDF and reformatted into fast reflowable articles for smartphone. Newspaper publishers could now offer their burgeoning mobile market a pleasant and superior alternative to the traditional print replica format, eliminating the need for readers to zoom and pan excessively on smartphones. Realview’s first online flipbook product (V1) hits the market, allowing publishers to transform their print-ready PDF content into stunning interactive flipbooks in just seconds. Realview emerges onto the tech scene in 1999 as a progressive new start-up founded jointly by CEO Richard Lindley and CTO Derek Chan.