Book2look Alternative, Flipbook Maker Tools for Publishers

ISBN agencies in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia are very similar to each other. They all have similar offers beside selling ISBNs, such as self-publishing services for authors. There are few other offers that don’t make sense, such as ISBN barcode generation and QR code generation. These ISBN agencies charge upward of $25 for an ISBN barcode image, which can be generated for free on sites like ISBNBarcode.org. Not only that, one of their offer is Book2Look which I will discuss in this blog post.

What is Book2look?

Book2look allows authors and book publishers to create Flipbooks. Allowing authors and publishers to upload a book manuscript in PDF file format to create a flipbooks, an interactive book reading experience for book readers. Book2look is used for sharing book samples or previews, helping publishers market their books. Book2look official website is book2look.com and there are several country-level domain names, such as book2look.de.

Book2look Alternative

There are many Flipbooks maker tools that does the same thing as Book2look. Here are a few Flipbooks maker tools:

1. Issuu flipbook
2. Flipsnack
3. Fliphtml5
4. Publuu

There is no pricing information on Book2look website. However, they offer flipbook service through MyIdentifier website, and they charge users $50 for creating one Flipbook.

Introducing Free Flipbook Maker Tools

We are book publishing and marketing experts; from our years of experience, we understand the pain point of marketing a book. We are creating tools to help book publishers and indie authors lives easier.

Here are two Flipbook maker tools we have built. You can create flipbook for free, and its easy.

BookView

BookView allows you to create a Flipbook by just entering a direct PDF URL. You will have to upload your manuscript in PDF file format to your web server, then enter the PDF file URL. BookView will encrypt your PDF file URL and create a Flipbook without hosting your files. It’s super easy. Then you can embed the interactive reading experience on any website.

Markdown Flipbook

Markdown Flipbook tool requires little technical knowledge to setup, but this is the best interactive book reading experience your readers can have.

Markdown Flipbook is a ReactJS app that allows you to create a responsive and interactive Flipbook. You can connect your domain name or use a free subdomain name to create an interactive book. Let me guide you on how to set this up:

1. Create a free account on Netlify and GitHub. Go to the Markdown Flipbook GitHub page and fork the project.

2. On the Netlify dashboard, click on the “Add new project” button, then “Import an existing project”. After that, connect to your GitHub account, and there you will see your forked GitHub project “Markdown Flipbook”. Now give a project name and click on the deploy button. This will get you a Markdown Flipbook URL with a demo book. You can change the content of the book by changing the manuscript.md file content and cover.jpg file in your GitHub project.

3. Navigate to “src” then “data” folders; you will see manuscript.md with your GitHub project. Click on the edit icon and edit the manuscript.md file. Enter your book content and metadata. Thereafter, commit the change. Delete the cover.jpg file in the public folder and your own cover.jpg file. Changes will be automatically deployed to the Netlify app. Good luck.

Resource Links

Demo Markdown Flipbook
BookView
GitHub project URL

Thank you for reading.