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[PDF] Create a demo of VitalSource on PDF #1233

Closed chrisshaw closed 2 years ago

chrisshaw commented 3 years ago

We'll be done when:

Scenario / story

I'm the person who wrote the code. We're in a meeting giving VS the update that we're ready to roll this out in a limited pilot for the Spring. We've already learned from profs that having H will prompt them to force students to opt-in/buy the textbook via VS, so we're adding real value to their business.

To prove we can cover the entirety of their catalog (both EPUB and PDF) and motivate them to begin recruiting their own customers for use, we show them the work we've done to solve for their PDF reader:

Assuming that:
I can do the following demo:

:heavy_plus_sign: For the future

robertknight commented 3 years ago

There are some initial technical notes from me on how PDF-based books work in VitalSource here: https://hypothes-is.slack.com/archives/C1M8NH76X/p1633947326099500.

Quoting from that thread:

The VitalSource PDF viewer presents each page of the PDF as a separate HTML document, consisting of one high-resolution image of the PDF, plus a bunch of data about the page and its text content in a Githubissues.

  • Githubissues is a development platform for aggregating issues.