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• It supported the provision of customized content for students to personalize training courses and meet local requirements. • It could host department-specific content such as videos, SOP/SOGs, and student handbooks. R1 was clearly a smash hit with FPP’s customers. By 2018, R1 reached the 100,000-user mark. Three years later, in 2021, that number doubled to 200,000 users. This was clearly the most successful eProduct launch in the history of the organization. The release of Essentials of Fire Fighting (6 th edition) in 2013 was accompanied by several eProduct supplemental products that were new to the organization. These included: • Exam Prep+ app for Essentials (6 th edition [(E6]). This app was the first of its kind in the FPP lineup of apps. It contained the same content as the print and interactive versions of the E6 Exam Prep, but in an app format. It allowed the learner to create and take an unlimited number of practice exams. It tracked the results of each exam and allowed questions to be placed in a study deck for future reference. One thing to note about the E6 Exam Prep+ is the level of success it achieved not only for FPP, but as an app in general. Of the 80,000 educational apps in the Apple app store at that time, the E6 app was in the top 40 in terms of downloads and in the top 30 in terms of revenue. Considering all 1.2 million apps in the app store, the E6 app ranked in the top 700 in number of downloads and in the top 800 in revenue. • Essentials 6 th Skills Series Videos. The set included 192 skills videos that were published on DVD (developed for offline viewing) and incorporated into the Firefighter I and II ResourceOne courses. • Completed work on an iPad version of the highly successful E6 Exam Prep+ app and modified the E6 Exam Prep+ app so it can be sold via Amazon. This gave the app presence in all three major app stores. The release of Essentials of Fire Fighting (7 th edition) in 2018 was accompanied by several eProduct
supplemental products that were new to the organization. These included: • An Essentials 7 companion app, that included the Exam Prep questions
• The Essentials 7 FFI and FFII interactive course • Access to all 173 skills videos for offline viewing • An audiobook covering all 27 chapters of the manual
Another new product that was developed in conjunction with the release of Essentials (7 th edition) was a Spanish translation of the manual that was made available in print, eBook, and audiobook formats. FPP worked with the FIRES Foundation to accomplish this task. A unique feature of this translation was that it lined up page by page with the English version. This allowed students to use the supplemental products without there being page differences between them and the text. It is worthy of note that this was actually not the first time that an edition of Essentials was translated into Spanish. In 1996, FPP entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (US DoD) to translate Essentials , Fire Department Pumping Apparatus , and Aircraft Rescue and Fire and Fighting each into Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish for use by the base fire departments in those countries. FPP retained the right to use the content for our own means. The only manual that FPP chose to print and market was the Spanish version of the Essentials (IV th edition) text. For a variety of reasons, sales of this manual never took off. Only a small number were sold, a number of them were given away, the bulk of the printing was sent to recycling. FPP entered the world of eBooks with the release of Essentials of Fire Fighting (6 th edition) in April of 2013. There was a growing interest for these from our customers and FPP wanted to meet that demand. More titles would follow shortly after that. Initially, we developed and sold them with the help of MBS Direct until December 31, 2014, when MBS Direct got out of the eBook business. FPP was forced to find another vendor to help develop them. There was a gap of about seven (7) months that we were unable to sell eBooks. Eventually, a company named VitalSource was chosen to assist in development and to start selling eBooks again. They
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