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Advantages

Superbooks have many advantages over other file-base e-book containers:

  1. Frictionless. Nothing to download or manage. The book goes offline seamlessly using a service-worker.
  2. Superbooks work everywhere — all smartphones, tablets & desktops. See our [full list] of supported platforms, OSes & browsers.
  3. Convenience & simplicity of web. Write books using the building blocks of web i.e HTML, CSS & JS.
  4. Write once & publish everywhere. Edit anytime, like a blog.
  5. Full control on design and layout of the book. Works just like web design.
  6. Semantic markup with clean index and searchability of the book because, well, it is HTML.
  7. Modern and soft feel of spine and pageflip. Ideal experience of books, not website.
  8. Zero worry about file size, no headache of managing pesky artifacts on the disk.
  9. Precise stack order, optimized for linear reading.
  10. Better maintainability of modular “app-like” manuscript.
  11. Finer page-level and book-level meta data.
  12. Sandboxed pages (document) with full freedom to code like a front-end developer.
  13. Ability to paint experimental content with executable code inside each page of the book.
  14. Ability to use hosted libraries & Content Delivery Network to speed up delivery of your book.
  15. No hassle about fifty proprietary file formats, or conversion or interoperability issues.
  16. Direct connection to a vibrant community of readers on the web.
  17. Ability to create multi-page CSSComics. This wasn’t even possible to do earlier.
  18. Skip the fifteen years lag that the rest of the e-book ecosystem is stuck on.
  19. Natural and auto bookmarking on the web.

…and counting.

Advantages​

Publishing your book directly on web has some direct advantages.

  • The distribution part comes to the mind first. Naturally, web is the most efficient machine for distribution for near zero cost. People can enjoy your work anywhere in the world without needing to download an artifact to the disk. Without need to own specialized and often propreitary hardware to be able to do that.

  • Attract impulsive readers who do not plan on reading a book ahead through social media. What's notable here is that your book is going to be available offline too using a Service Worker to such readers.

  • Natural SEO. With the entire content online it is easier for people to be able to find your book via a search engine.

  • Frictionless. Readers can read and share the story on the device they are on without need special hardware or separate apps—a Superbook is generally supported on all devices and browsers between an Apple Watch and an OLED TV.

  • Transparent metrics down to the very last page on your book. See how the world is enjoying your work in real time.

  • There are other advantages of publishing on Bubbblin—like you get to own 100% rights and the process is secured with industry-grade encryption and you get to engage with a very vibrant community of book lovers on the web.

The website https://bubblin.io and our wrapper app on Google Playstore are the production environment for all your works. It is the place where your final and latest edition of the book will live. Bubblin comes with a tiny but robust RESTful api, a browser-side book editor (a code playground) and an npm package (CLI tool) that can be installed locally to produce books.

Here are some of the important links:

  1. Bookiza Abelone—a book baking tool (CLI) in nodejs and its documentation.
  2. H2S—an automatic paginator & HTML2Superbook convertor.
  3. Gutendown— a free resource with all Gutenberg titles in markdown format.
  4. A demo book that doubles as documentation for Bookiza.
  5. And a contact us page.

Along with the tools here are some strong layout templates that are super easy to configure and reuse on any type of book.

Svelte books forged with a blade of shining sun.