We are a tech non-profit
We want a world in which digital book publishing uses web tech and is based on an open foundation. We want digital books to be a full-fledged medium and an emancipatory force. So we founded a non-profit. ✨
Why not a start-up?
Our goal isn’t to make a quick buck, but to create a sustainable platform whose stability helps everyone who uses it — publishers, readers and other institutions that make the book ecosystem so interesting.
We want to create an organisation that can earn its keep (however, you can support us at Patreon), while at the same time independently guaranteeing the quality and development of web books.
Our team
Josef Kocurek
service designer & researcher
Reading belongs to the people
Web books have a chance to break our dependence on actors who exploit the book market just to make money. Plus, they are beautiful and easy to read.
Matěj Málek
graphic designer
Exploring the frontiers of e-books
The design and typography of contemporary e-books is stuck in the state of consumer goods. In books on the web, on the other hand, I sense a disruptive potential to return graphic design back into the text and to revive the intimate book-reader relationship.
Jan Martinek
developer, chairman of the association
Thinking about the future of books
I’m hoping for a reading experience that takes off from paper, PDF and commercial readers and finds its place in open platforms on the web — the medium has already been created, let’s re-create it and make it better.
Lukas Porsche
web analyst
An enjoyable read on the web? That’ll be great!
I like being part of this foolish idea to weave a meaningful e-book format in amongst the clutter that prevails in this area so far. And she every strong idea is foolish to begin with.
Laďka Zbiejczuk Suchá
researcher
I connect our work to research and practice
For me, webbooks are a means of designing, experimenting and thinking about (alternative) futures of books and reading.
Your Name
We’re incomplete
Do you love books and web and do you want to be involved in designing the future of reading? Let’s meet.
Come on in!
You love books, or perhaps e-books, and you want to design the future of reading? Let’s meet. We will figure out what we can do together.