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1. What is Spotbit about?

Spotbit empowers you to publish, sell your e-books in a fast, easy and free method.

Spotbit.com provides paperless solution to publishing industry which end result is an E-Book make available in a unique and standalone digital format that is different from most formats available in the current market.

The Paperless Solution

SPOTBIT™ economized on the methods of publishing and change your view of options available for printed news and information that are presented and distributed worldwide.

E-books at Spotbit.com are compiled by using SPOTBIT™ E-Book Builder, a simple process to enable paperless publishing in matters of seconds. SPOTBIT™ E-Book Builder is a complete and yet unique tool to assist effective publishing for all publishers, authors, writers and all other publications at lower cost, quicker service time and higher royalties

E-Books build and published at Spotbit.com enables you to customize your books to your preferences for further enjoyable reading experience anytime, anywhere.

SPOTBIT™ provides one of the simplest and yet offers the latest Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology incorporated into the E-books formats. Our paperless solution formats is equipped with strong encryption and multiple layers of protection that require an activation code to unlock the E-books and another activation code is required to access the E-Books if it is being copied to another computer.

SPOTBIT™ E-Book Builder is designed with you in mind. We offer to provide marketing tools and promotion options to assist you to promote and sell your publication worldwide instantaneously.


2. When is Spotbit.com established?

Spotbit.com is a subsidiary of iPmart Network Sdn Bhd and was established one and half year ago.


3. What is paperless publishing/solution?

At Spotbit.com, we provides an arena for organization or authors with this service of creating such digital documents in a least cost effective manner to reap on this wake of digital wave.

Paperless or Digital publishing is the creation of digital or electronic documents through which original creative works and information are made available to an audience, however broad or narrow. Digital media include web-pages (HTML), portable digital documents (PDF), and e-books, all of which may in turn include digital images.



4. What is the benefits of paperless publishing/solution?

Paperless publishing are designed to provide convenience, immediacy, and mutual profit for both authors and readers, visual artist and viewing public.

The process is relatively inexpensive, and because it uses the Internet as a means of delivery, it serves as an expansion of access on the creative and commercial ends; i.e. the author/artist gains exposure (or access to a wider audience), and the literary or visual-art consumer gains variety (or access to a broader spectrum of original work).

Main benefits of paperless publishing at Spotbit.com are:

1 Spotbit provide digital-rights technologies that allow authors to produce portable, customizable digital works with built-in royalty protection, without the usual restraints imposed by print publishing's economies of scale and gatekeeper distribution.

2 Publishing at Spotbit will benefit by gaining higher sales levels, greater market exposure with additional titles, reduced warehouse expenses, and accelerated cash flow.

3 Publishing at Spotbit offers shorter works, reprints, or out-of-print books without the overhead publishing costs

4 There's far less overhead, no inventory, and, [because] we're using a technology infrastructure that also scales, the more we have, the lower the cost.

5 Authors also save time and money when publishing straight to a digital format that estimates that he reduced the time from rough draft to final online publication by about 75 percent by publishing with Spotbit.com.

6 Overhead costs for authors are also reduced. They are not rejection and no minimum requirement to fulfill before getting published their works.

7 Another factor that will continue to drive publishers to online shelves is that the Web has whet consumers' appetites for convenient access to information.


5. How can Spotbit.com protect intellectual property rights and prevent piracy?

Our E-Book Builders is designed with you in mind. Spotbit offers the latest DRM technology to prevent copying and printing.

SPOTBIT e-book is equipped with strong encryption and multiple layers of protection and yet one of the simplest formats make available for authors or publishers who would like their manuscripts converted into eBook format.

Once the protection mode has been enabled, your e-book will only be accessible if your customers had purchase an activation code to unlock your e-book. Once your e-book is activated, it can only be viewed from that particular computer. Another activation code is required to access to the e-book if it is being copied to another computer thus prevent piracy and fraud.


6. What can Spotbit do for me?

Spotbit.com acts as an service provider to assist all publishers, authors, writers and all walks of life to create e-books at no cost and yet provides an arena for all publication of excellent, talented authors to take their books to the Net and sell it themselves and earn higher royalty and sales. A real time sales report is provided for monitoring your sales made from e-books sold

For publishers, Spotbit.com provides from effective lower cost of production for all publications to no hassle of distribution and yet with an in-built DRM protection to prevent piracy.

For readers, Spotbit is an online bookstore where you can purchase price competitive books or even free e-books and magazine to download.


7. How to build/create Ebooks at Spotbit.com?

To build E-books at Spotbit.com, just log in to www.spotbit.com click on tab "Create E-books" and follow the procedure requirement. You will need to open an account with us first to create any e-books.

E-Books


8. What is an ebooks?

An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen or on devices called e-book readers. It is downloaded to a computer, PC, Mac, laptop, PDA or any other kind of computer, and is read on the screen. It can have numbered pages, table of contents, pictures and graphics, exactly like a printed book and could be further enhanced to add in animated features, video clips and sound.


9. Why do I want an ebooks?

Spotbit E-books are delivered almost instantaneously. You can purchase, download and start reading them within minutes, without leaving your chair. You don't have to go to a bookstore to buy them, neither wait for them for days, weeks and sometimes more to arrive in the mail.

E-books are portable. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you. E-books can show hyper-links, for easy access to more information and related websites

Excellent, talented authors can take their books to the Net, market/promote and sell those books themselves. It is guaranteed as you journey through the paperless solution world, you are going to find outstanding, spell-binding, and top-class works, which are well worth the read.


10. What is the features of Spotbit ebooks?

Spotbit Ebook Builder is able to produce dynamic reading and viewing experiences, within a standalone, unique & animated flippable format.

EBooks is designed :

i) Thumbnail for easy user friendly navigation allows you to jump to pages that you want.

ii) zoom and magnify to 1000%, - allows you to zoom in certain pages and read at a bigger image.

iii) No extra installation of software to operate the ebooks.

iv) Or linked directly to relevant locations on the World Wide Web, provided the same device is connected to the internet.


11. Do I have to go through a DRM 'activation' process to create E-books at Spotbit.com?

No, there is no longer a separate DRM activation step. It is in-built in the process of creating the E-Books.


12. Will Spotbit edit my content for me?

No. Spotbit provides you with the tools to publish and sell your products online and the freedom to do all the formatting and layout of your work before you proceed publish it on Spotbit.


13. If I have accidentally deleted my ebooks, can I get another copy?

Just re-download another copy and you should be able to access it without to reactivate the ebooks.


Intellectuals Propriety


14. What is Spotbits policy in regards to copyrights?.

We assumed no ownership towards the exclusive intellectual property of their author, for whom all rights are reserved.


15. What rights does Spotbit has over my works?

Publishing at Spotbit gives you total copyright over all of your content, and we never ask you to give up any rights to us. We want to do whatever we can to discourage the violation of intellectual property rights. For all the details, see the Distribution Agreement


16. Do I lose the rights to my works?

No. Spotbit has no rights or copyright in your work and makes no claims or restrictions on the ownership of your work. Rights and copyrights remain with you as the author and creator. You continue to own the rights in your name or if you have arrangements on behalf of others. Your purchase and use of any Spotbit services does not undermine your rights or copyright.


System Requirement


17. What are the system requirement to operate Spotbit Ebooks?

Minimum Recommended

CPU Intel Pentium 3 Intel Pentium 4

RAM 64MB 256MB

Operating System Windows 98/ME/XP/Vista Windows 98/ME/XP/Vista

Screen Resolution 800x600 1028x768



18. What format do publishers and authors need to provide to create E-Book?

PDF format, MS Mircosoft words, jpeg and jif.


19. Do I need a reader/program to access/open the ebooks?

No. All Ebooks downloaded through Spotbit.com does not require any extra application to operate. It is a standalone application/format.


20. Can I read Spotbit ebooks by using Palm/Pocket PC/ebookman?

Not at the moment. Please refer to the system requirement explanation.


Earn Money


21. How can I earn money from Spotbit.com?

By uploading your e-books to Spotbit.com, you can set a royalty amount that you wish to earn from the E-books and the system will automatically decide a selling price for your E-books.


22. How and when are royalties paid?

Royalties are paid by transferring to your bank account and you can make a claim to the commission when the amount is USD 100 minimum.


23. What royalty amount is given to the authors/publishers?

The owner shall have the absolute discretion to decide the selling price for the Ebook and the owner will be informed of any sales of the Ebook through the Real Time Sales Report service provided by Spotbit. In addition, the owner will be provided with a personal on-line account to monitor the royalty amount generated from the sales of the Ebook.


24. Is it free to sell my ebooks at Spotbit.com?

Yes. There are no production costs. We host your published work for free.


25. What is the requirement to be the reseller of Spotbit.com Dongle and activation for the Repairing E-Manual?

For full details of requirement to be the reseller of Spotbit.com, kindly contact sales@spotbit.com


Others


26. How can I make sure that no virus is attached to the exe.file?

Spotbit e-book are build in Linux environment. Linux. Even if the system is infected by virus, the linux won��t cause damage on the Window System. If you have downloaded the e-books from other website or copied from another source, please scan it with anti-virus software before opening it.


27. Why is it that the message Invalid Activation Code" appear even I used the purchase activation code to unlock my ebooks?

It could be caused by connection interruption, your system application such firewall, antivirus could have block it from accessing the e-books.


28. How safe is it to shop at Spotbit.com?

It is safe to shop at Spotbit.com. All of your transactions are made through WorldPay and PayPal and is encrypted and we do not have access to all information of the shoppers.