Ourboox is a free online platform for creating and sharing
ebooks that incorporate text, images, videos,
puzzle
A puzzle is a game, Problem solving, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (Disentanglement puzzle, or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to arrive at th ...
s, maps and
quizzes.
The Ourboox platform enables users to add text in any language that is compatible with
html5, to add artwork in
JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
,
PNG, or
GIF
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formats, and to
embed various media content from other websites, e.g. YouTube,
Vimeo,
SoundCloud and others.
Each e-book is identified by its own
URL
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed as a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifie ...
, and can be edited by the author even after it is published. The content on Ourboox is not protected by
digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...
(DRM), and can thus be readily
indexed and searched by various
search engines.
A feature of Ourboox is the use of a page-flipping script, which emulates printed books. This feature is suited for either direction of reading –
right-to-left and
left-to-right.
Ourboox has gained popularly among teachers and students,
[{{cite web , title= Ourboox recommendation by the Israeli Ministry of Education , url= http://ecat.education.gov.il/ourboox] and currently has over 16000 books in 24
languages and 94
genres as of February 2017.
It was established by
Mel Rosenberg and
Ran Shternin, and was launched in 2014.
References
External links
Ourboox website
Book formats
Electronic publishing
Web fiction