PDF TO ONLINE BOOK
Publish your PDF as an online book
Upload a manuscript, manual, yearbook or report and publish it as a book people open in a browser: no download, no app and no copy that quietly goes out of date in an inbox.
- One link instead of a file
- Page by page reading on any device
- Chapter index, links and analytics
Books are longer, and length changes what matters
A four-page brochure forgives a slow viewer. A two-hundred-page book does not. Long documents fail on the things nobody demonstrates: how quickly page one appears, whether a reader can jump to chapter nine without loading the eight before it, and whether coming back tomorrow means starting over. Magazine Flip loads pages on demand and gives every publication a thumbnail index, so length stops being the reason people give up on the first screen.
What is better published as a book than sent as a PDF
Manuals and handbooks, because they get corrected and a link can be corrected while a downloaded copy cannot. Annual reports and yearbooks, because they are read once, shared widely and measured badly. Sample chapters and previews, because a link can expire and a file never will. Course material and internal documentation, because one password on one publication is easier to manage than twenty copies of the same PDF sitting in twenty inboxes.
Chapters, links and knowing what actually got read
Add labeled hotspots to a page and the book becomes navigable: a contents page that jumps to chapters, a footnote that opens its source, a closing page that sends the reader to buy the full edition. Every hotspot counts its own clicks, and publication analytics show retention page by page — where readers stopped, which chapter lost them, how long the average session ran. For a book that exists to sell something, that is the difference between publishing and guessing.
The outcome
A book that lives at an address you control instead of in a downloads folder.
Frequently asked questions
How long can the book be?
100 pages on the free plan, 500 on Studio and 1,000 on Business.
Can readers jump straight to a chapter?
Yes. The thumbnail index moves the reader to any page without loading everything before it.
Can I correct a chapter after publishing?
Yes. Upload the corrected PDF to the same publication and the link you already shared keeps working.
Can I restrict who reads it?
Yes. A publication can be unlisted, protected with a password or given an expiration date.
Does it work for a scanned book?
Yes, as images. The pages display normally, but text inside a scan is not selectable.
Can I publish the same book in two languages?
Yes. Publish each language as its own publication and link them from the contents page.