For books where the positioning of images is crucial, such as cookery books, travel books, comic strips or children's books, a "fixed layout" EPUB format has developed to allow being absolutely true to the original work on paper and to give optimal rendering.

Epub Fixed layout are particularly recommended for titles where one of the following layout elements is critical for the reader's experience:

• Multi-column text
• Illustrations or graphics which are essential to understanding the text
• Coffee table books, photo albums
• Ratios of the size of text/image which must not change
• Colors which must be true to the paper version

The largest eBooks retailer Apple, Amazon, B & N & Kobo all four have introduced their own unique fixed layout eBook file formats. Since Apple added fixed layout to iBooks, many companies large and small have created workflows that take InDesign or PDF input to create fixed layout EPUB for publishers. Types of book that we frequently reproduce as fixed-layout eBooks include:

• Children's picture books
• Cookery books
• Travel guides
• Restaurant guides
• Company reports and annual reviews
• Academic publications
• Text books and learning materials
• Business guides

We can produce the following fixed-layout eBook formats:

• Fixed-layout ePUB 3 for Apple, Google, Kobo, Overdrive and eSentral.
• Fixed-layout KF8 for Amazon Kindle Devices
• PagePerfect PDF for Barnes & Noble
• Nook Kids ePIB for Barnes & Noble
• Kindle Comics for Amazon Kindle
• Nook Comics for Barnes & Noble