Doc-To-Help, a provider of interactive content, has released a cloud-based version of its app, which allows users to create interactive books that can be read on eReaders, tablets, phones, PCS, Macs and more, “eliminating the need for EPUB development or design skills,” according to a statement.

Doc-To-Help, which provides online help publishing, automatically publishes content to desktop, Web, mobile device and print formats and provides design and layout for the copy, as well.  Users import content in Microsoft (News - Alert) Word, HTML or Doc-To-Help’s editor and Doc-To-Help puts the content in a readable form.

E-publishing is used by everyone from writers to scientists in peer-reviewed journals to get messages out to their readers, and the public, over the Web.

Customers can also now integrate DISQUS, an online discussion and commenting service for websites, letting them communicate with its users/readers.

For those who would like to gather user comments and ratings for their Help system and build a community, Doc-To-Help can incorporate DISQUS in NetHelp 2.0. Using this networked platform, DISQUS works on all popular browsers.

"We want to make sure we are helping our users provide the best experience for their customers as possible," said Dan Beall, product manager of Doc-To-Help at ComponentOne. "The addition of EPUB completes our output portfolio and ensures that our users can deliver content where their customers need it. Plus, we have integrated NetHelp with DISQUS, a popular cloud-based commenting platform, so our customers can gather feedback from their readers."

Doc-To-Help also includes a new visual theme designer app. "The Visual Theme Designer allows a user to style the 'skin' that surrounds their online Help content, as well as the button display, labels, icons, and colors," Beall added. Several pre-defined themes are included for each output, and a custom theme can also be created.

Additional features in the new release include an optional advanced search enginefor searching complex systems without a lag in performance; the ability to stream live content onto Web pages, while Japanese and Chinese themes can be selected for Web-based outputs and will be automatically translated.

Sales of eBooks and the devices on which people read them - eReaders, tablets and smartphones – are climbing steadily upward, according to a new eMarketer (News - Alert) report, which found that "the U.S. adult eReader user base is poised to grow at double-digit percentages this year and next, but in 2014 and 2015 expansion will slow.”

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