Support

Somatic Digital provides comprehensive support for our Partner Program members. Our Partner Program enables publishers and independent authors to create their own Touch User Interface (TUI) technology-based interactive texts, supplements, and workbooks. Read about our Partner Program .

Non-partners may also find limited support under Open Resources as well.

Open Resources
Partner Resources
Certification Program

The eTouchBook Suite of hardware and software platform tools enable publishers and content owners to manage and directly link their print and digital assets. It provides publishers with the ability to create a hybrid media distribution experience. This enables a new ecosystem of transactions, analytics, and interactivity by turning the regular printed page into a touch screen. As a result, the printed page becomes a portal to the digital world.

Currently, print and digital assets are managed separately. We show publishers how to unleash the eTouchBook ecosystem and manage their print and digital assets in a single workflow. The eTouchBook Suite certification enables publishers to expand the content and services they deliver to their readership.

We have two levels of certification. Each are 1-day courses conducted on site with supplementary online curriculum pieces.

User-level Certification

This is offered four times per year through Somatic Digital or through Instructor-level Partner Program members (see below). Successful completion of this course entitles the candidate to present this qualification to any employer seeking someone with TUI and eTouchBook Suite skills. It is free-of-charge to Partner Program members.

The User-level Certification covers:

  1. eTouchBook™ hardware platform - This publisher-branded platform makes the printed page sensitive to the reader's touch; basically making the printed page a touch screen.
  2. eTouchBook Client™ software - This publisher-branded application runs on the computer. It manages the TUI databases that control the links and routes the pathways to the digital experience launched from the printed page and serves as a browser window hosting the digital experience. As part of the non-exclusive license, software developers can increase its functionalities.
  3. BookDesigner Web Service™ - Through a web browser and Internet connection a content developer can dynamically build and test TUI databases before they are deployed out to the eTouchBook Client on their readership's computers.
Instructor-level Certification

This "train-the-trainer" certification course is currently offered only once a year at the Company headquarters. It is free-of-charge to Partner Program members and includes online supplemental support. Upon successful completion of this course, the selected attendees are permitted to create their own User-level certification programs. They may also be invited back to the Center as User-level certifying instructors. Only the Center is authorized to certify Instructor-level certification.

The Instructor-level certification covers the three items in the User- level certification, plus: