Online reading for publishers

Your books, read online under your own name.

our.ink gives each publisher a protected online library on its own domain. Readers highlight and take notes; you decide who reads which book, and for how long.

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Features

What publishers and readers get today

Your domain, your brand

Each publisher has its own reader site with its name, colors and fonts, on its own domain with automatic HTTPS. our.ink appears only as a small "Powered by" line.

Protected reading

Pages are sent as images marked for each reader. The PDF never leaves the server, page views are logged and rate-limited, and sign-ups are checked for bots without puzzles.

Fast pages, near and far

The shared parts of each page are served from Cloudflare's network, and the next pages load ahead while the reader reads. Test readers in China, Finland, Singapore and the USA saw quick page times.

Comfortable reading

One page or two side by side, zoom and fit to the page or its width, and a focus view. Turn pages with the keys, the side arrows or a swipe on phones and tablets.

Highlights and notes on the page

Readers highlight, draw and write notes straight on the page, move and resize them, and find them again in the Tools panel and in a list for each book.

Links that work

Contents, cross-references and citations in the PDF jump to the right page, and web and email links open, just as in the original.

English and Simplified Chinese

The reader, its emails and the publisher console are in English and Simplified Chinese. Each publisher chooses its languages, and readers switch at any time.

Free samples and covers

Each book can have a free sample that readers open straight from the publisher's site. Visitors see covers and the library before they sign up.

Access you control

Readers can have access to a publisher's whole library or to single books. Every grant shows how it was given and when it ends, and you can end it at any time.

Reviewer invitations

Instead of printed review copies, send a link for 30, 60 or 90 days of reading. A link can be for one person or a group, and can be switched off.

Feedback to the right place

Readers send comments about the book to the publisher, from the page they are on, and say whether you may quote them. Problems with the reader itself go to the our.ink team.

Companion resources

Publishers add links and files for each book, for everyone or only for its readers, on a resources page under their own domain.

Publisher console

Owners, admins and editors for each publisher. Upload books in four image quality levels, manage readers, members and access, and see usage figures with CSV export.

Separate by design

Each publisher's books and readers are kept apart in the database itself, with row-level security, not only in the application.

Reachable in China

No Google fonts, analytics or tracking scripts: the reader and its fonts load from our own server, through Cloudflare's network.

In development

Coming next

Listed in the order we are building them.

  1. Buying e-reader access with cards, Alipay and WeChat Pay, from a shop page in each publisher's library.
  2. Discounts and coupon codes for launch weeks, special days and classes.
  3. Print and e-reader bundles, shipped by the printer, in the US and Australia first.
  4. Requests for review and teaching copies, answered from the publisher console.
  5. Shared annotations and discussion around a page.

Further ahead

Plans and studies

Directions we are studying and planning. They are not commitments, so there are no dates.

  • Reading support for adult readers

    Optional help with difficult texts, switched on by each publisher for each book: guiding questions, practice and later review, private to each reader.

  • A reading assistant

    Answers from the book itself, with page references, and search across the text and your notes.

  • Maps of a book's ideas

    Showing how the concepts of a book connect, as a map the reader can explore.

  • Offline reading

    Reading a whole book on a computer without a connection.

  • Quizzes and courses

    Practice quizzes beside the page, and LTI 1.3 so a course in a learning platform can open its readings.

  • Edited books and peer review

    Projects with chapters by several authors, chapter review rounds and revisions, assembled into the published book.

  • DOIs and permanent records

    DOI registration with public landing pages, starting with titles published by Global Academic Partnerships.

  • Conference proceedings

    From accepted paper to the published volume, for conference organizers.

  • Author questions and answers

    Readers ask, authors answer, and the answers stay with the book.