1. What is NXTWidget? The NXTwidget is a web widget. Readers of a publisher’s website can scroll through thumbnails of the digital edition and search inside the digital edition for keyword content. One click opens the digital edition on the page the reader has selected.
2. Where?It’s a web widget, designed to go on a publisher’s website. For that reason, sizes and colors can be easily tweaked.
3. How? The NXTwidget is fed by an RSS feed published with every digital edition. This is one of the greatest features of all - the minute your NXTbook is published, your widget updates itself.

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As a way to kick off our sponsorship on Publishing 2.0, Scott suggested we write a “What is a digital edition?” post. Frankly, that’s a great idea because – like many new technology terms – definitions vary. In fact, every day at NXTbook we find ourselves clarifying our own definition.

Those familiar with the term “digital edition” may think it refers to a PDF, some other type of digital magazine or even the newly released Adobe Digital Editions. And to be fair, these are common examples. For the purposes of this post, we’ll label those examples as such:

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