eBooks.com’s online reader app lets you read ebooks in a browser, without installing software, without downloading anything. The book you bought just opens straight away, and you can start reading.
It’s a cloud-based app, which means you can start reading on your office computer and, when you get to the airport, flip open your laptop and pick up where you left off. And then, when you get to your auntie’s place for the weekend, you can continue reading it on her computer.
It’s a cloudy reader
We first started doing this in 2004. We were the first to think of it, the first to do it. Others followed and copied us as best they could.
Simple
Our customers love reading in a browser because it’s so simple.
To download an ebook takes a few steps. You need to install and “authorise” a reader app first. And then download the ebook.
But the online ebook reader app skips all that:
- Pay for the ebook…
- It opens in the browser.
That’s it.
Full featured ebook reading
Our online reader is packed with the features and functions you’d expect from an ebook device, yet it runs inside your web browser. And there’s now a mobile version of this online reader that will work on absolutely any tablet or smart phone – again, without the need to install an app or fiddle with files.
Of course, you can always download the whole book — there’s a big download button embedded in every page. But thousands of our customers choose to never download.
Check it out
You can see the online ebook reader app in action here, thanks to our friends at The Floating Press:
Impeding piracy
eBooks.com’s online ebook reader app is popular with publishers because it addresses piracy concerns in a very elegant way. The actual text of a book is never downloaded to users’ computers. Each page is rendered as a single image, without underlying text.
Article updated 07-Aug-2020
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