QR code smart textbooks

A QR code in a textbook is easy to add and easy to get wrong. Codes printed too small to scan, codes pointing at a video nobody made, codes that break when the hosting moves. Content Factory treats the codes as part of the book: written, placed, tested on a real phone, and verified again on the printed proof.

The book and the layer behind it

A smart textbook is two deliverables. The printed book, and the resource each code resolves to.

What the layer carries, subject by subject

• Mathematics: worked numerical solutions, step by step
• Science: experiments, animations and concept demonstrations
• English: pronunciation, grammar and guided reading
• Tamil: recitation, prose explanation and grammar
• Social science: maps, timelines and archival footage
• Computer science: coding demonstrations and practicals
• Any subject: revision summaries and model answers

Eight steps, and the codes are tested twice

1. •

   Chapter plan

   We agree which topics earn a code. Not every page needs one, and a book covered in codes gets ignored.

2. •

   Textbook writing

   The chapter is written first. The digital layer supports the book; it does not replace it.

3. •

   Script writing

   Video and audio scripts written to the chapter, in the book language, at an agreed runtime.

4. •

   Production

   Video and audio produced by you, by your vendor, or quoted separately by us.

5. •

   Hosting

   Resources go on your platform, your channel or an agreed hosting service. You own the links.

6. •

   Code generation and placement

   Codes generated against final URLs and placed where the eye expects them, at a scannable size.

7. •

   Testing

   Every code scanned on Android and iOS before the file goes to plate.

8. •

   Print proof check

   Codes scanned again from the printed proof, because ink gain and paper can kill a small code.

Indicative rates

Video production, hosting and ongoing maintenance are quoted separately, because they depend on who makes and hosts the material.

Indicative figures for budgeting. See the full book writing price list.

Only languages we can verify

Fifteen languages are written, edited and proofread by people who read them natively. A manuscript is never signed off by someone working through a dictionary.

Other languages are taken on only when a native writer and a separate native proofreader are both available for that script, and we say so before you commit. Detail: multilingual book writing.

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