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Hello Publishers!

Calaméo team is looking for a Front-end Developer.

 He/She will be in charge of:

• Redesign of the front-end in collaboration with our designers and back-end developers
• Improving interface for mobile platforms (smartphones & tablets)
• Improving the user experience and performance
• Enhancement of existing functionalities (reader, editors…)

Skills:

• HTML5
• CSS
• Javasript (OOP Ajax…)
• JQuery or Prototype
• Templating (Smarty, doT…)
• Responsive design
• GIT

For further information about this job based in Paris, just click here.

Our new viewer has been around for two months already – and some of you have been very inspired by the many options now available…

Here is a short collection of what can be done with our new viewer to enhance your publications…

Transform your publication skin to match your brand image:

Browse through the publication with our new page line:

Design your own icons:

Any idea of what you can do next? It’s your turn to show us what you can do to personalize your own publications!

Check out our documentation to learn how to design your own skin!

After thinking big and working hard, our new viewer is now available!

We’re proud to introduce you to the new viewer you’ve all been waiting for! Many new features have been added to our awesome solution to make it even more professional than before… Calameo is just the best way possible for your company to publish and share your documents on line!

Enjoy our new link editor to illustrate your publications with videos from all major platforms (including Vimeo and Dailymotion) and tracks from SoundCloud! Integrate Google Analytics to monitor your publications and get more insights on your views! Create new skins with interactive componants and special effects to design the skin you’ve always dreamed of! And much more…

Check it out now!

Thanks you all so much for your support! It’s very rewarding to see that our community grows so quickly on social networks as well as on our platform…

Remember that we always welcome your suggestions – and Facebook is a great medium to share your feedback!

Every year around 200 new titles are put on the shelves of the French bookstores in September.

As all the main publishing houses release their new titles at once, it is not always easy to choose which one to read. Fortunately, MyBoox now shares the most important extracts on its platform.

MyBoox, the most important French social community about litterature has set up a page dedicated to the event. Thanks to our solution, they came up with many dozens extracts for readers who’d like to browse through these new books before bying them.

If you’d like to get a glimse at what’s hot on the French litterature scene at the moment, we suggest you check out their platform! They’ve put the best of these new books in Calameo format.

As you already know, our new Beta viewer has been released last June!

Amongst our priviledged Beta users, we’d like to introduce you to Damien Bonis, Technical Manager at Glénat. This French publishing house has been relying on Calameo for more than two years to promote their latest publications online. Here is what they have to say about their experience with our solution:

“We’ve been using Calaméo since November 2010 with a free account – and decided to upgrade to PLATINUM in July 2011. We first found out about Calameo when looking for ways to share our latest extracts with journalists. We had a look at different flipbook solutions available at the time and chose Calameo… I think it was a post on your blog that got me convinced!

“Since then, we’ve been sending newsletters to critics with private URLs. This way they can check out our coming releases directly online.

We also feature a few public extracts on our platform for our readers and we even share private publications protected by a login and password with our legal department.

“We really love the  new printing feature in the Beta viewer. Our readers can now print the whole-document instead of  just the page they are currently reading! We also appreciate the Google Analytics integration and the new basic skin with its semi-transparent menu.

“But, frankly, we already found the previous viewer pretty awesome…”

We thank all our Beta testers for their most insightful feedback.

It’s been a month now since we released our new viewer! We’re still very excited about this project, and it seems that our Beta team shares our enthusiasm…

“Thanks! The link editor is AWESOME… KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK (…) The new beta is really really awesome!“
- Dave

“This is an amazing new feature, I will explore it more in deep to give you as much feedbacks as possible.“
- Ferdinando

“I love the fact that I can now monitor my publications with Google Analytics!“
- Lauren

“Great sharing options – much easier for my readers to post our publications on Facebook and Twitter!“
- Anna Rose

“Thanks for adding Vimeo to the new viewer. It’s already been most useful to our team…“
- Antoine

“Great skins to choose from!“
- Sofia

“Your new viewer is even better than what we were waiting for. (…) The interface is quite revolutionnary. So much better!“
- Marius

Fernandino is the first Calameo user to have joined our Beta team!

By next week, our new viewer will be available to our Beta testers! If you want to be selected for this very special launch, send us an email at contact[@]calameo.com

You’ll get amazing new features to promote your publications and personalize your document!

Leave us the email address linked to your Calameo account and we’ll add you to the list. You’ll receive an email when we release it – with explanations to get started. We’ll be there to guide you step by step!