THINKaha, a California corporation (located in the heart of Silicon Valley), is a quick2publish book publisher that has the distribution channels of the big guys and the customer service of Nordstrom. THINKaha is a leader in timely, cutting-edge books and mobile applications from relevant experts that provide valuable information in a fun, Twitter-brief format for a fast-paced world.

Business Need
The customer was seeking new ways to increase revenue and grow their publishing business. They needed powerful distribution tool that allow the publisher to maintain contact with eBook buyers through the Internet and mobile devices.

Solution
SolovatDesign has designed and implemented a solution that consist of the iPhone applet, company website and web-based administration tool.

• Stand-alone eBooks iPhone application is available for purchase through the iTunes store and includes a sample book. Customers may download up to 3 ebooks for free. If they like what they read, they can purchase more ebooks.
  
  
  
  The content for iPhone application is managed via web-based administration tool (content management system).
• THINKaha companion website operates out of the same database as iPhone application and represents the company in the Internet.
• Web-based administration tool (content management system) allows authors and publishers to upload, configure, and price their eBooks, and get statistics on their sales.

Once the content is updated via web platform, the updates to both THINKaha iPhone application and Company website go live in real-time.

Publishers have access to the following statistics/reports:

• List of users: user name, e-mail address, downloaded e-books;
• List of e-books: title, price, total number of downloads, total sales revenue

There is an option to set a date range for reports (last week, last month, last quarter, last year or manual entry) :

Tools and Technologies

• iPhone SDK including Xcode, iPhone simulator and performance tool
• PHP, MySQL