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Engage your audience with an exceptional experience.

Shelf: the library platform for your content.

A platform to distribute your digital content on the web and mobile devices.

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Your branded app

Choose your application name, your logo and look&feel to match with your Corporate Identity.

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Sell your content

Sell your publications via the app stores through the in-app purchase system, subscription or coupon based system and Q&A unlock system.

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Powerful CMS

Shelf has a reliable and scalable backend and uses Amazon AWS technology.

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What is it?

SHELF is your branded library platform that allows your customers to buy, download and enjoy your digital content through a native app for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and a web app for desktop. It supports interactive publications, PDFs, audiobooks, EPUBs, video (local, embedded or live) and HTML5 content (webpages, animations, presentations, and much other great stuff!).

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A powerful CMS.

You are entirely in control of your brand, catalogue and main visuals from the backend. SHELF has a reliable and scalable backend and uses Amazon AWS technology or whatever cloud tech you need; you can access customers' data for your marketing purposes.

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It’s customised for you.

The application is white label, you can choose your own logos, colours and fonts and structure its pages as you wish. You will be able to add all the content you want and modify the pages and catalogue in real time.

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Do you want to create interactive digital content?

PubCoder's XPUB format is the best solution for creating multilingual and interactive content with animations, games, quizzes, videos, and links.

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Do you publish fixed content?

You can upload your PDFs and let your users enjoy them with the fast, built-in reader, with the full support of table of contents, flowable or page-turning view modes, and many other features. Are your customers tired? They can just put down the phone, and SHELF will get them just where they left off reading when they will open the app again!

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Flowable EPUB3? No problem!

We also support the flowable EPUB3 standard, you can distribute and sell your entire books catalog through Shelf.

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Be flexible with HTML5

Shelf handles your HTML5 catalogue and any HTML5 export you can think of: web pages, animations, presentations, interactive games, etc.

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Do you own audio or video content?

You will love our players. The audio player has a stunning UI and features chapters navigation, variable playback speed, background playback support with headphones/lock screen controls, and more. The video player manages your video with a DRM; you can embed a web player or stream a video from a server.

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Distribute and sell your content.

You can sell your content with the in-app-purchase system, auto-renewing subscriptions, coupon codes or custom unlocking mechanisms (e.g. to prove purchase of a physical good). You may distribute it for free. And you can also provide a free, fully customisable demo of your content for your users to try before buying.

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International customers?

You can localise SHELF into English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Arabic and Chinese. However, if your language is already missing, you can localise SHELF providing us with the translation you need. And, of course, you can localise the content too, as you want.

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How do users access the content?

Shelf includes readers for XPUB interactive publications, audiobooks and PDFs. When your users download content on SHELF, they can use it offline without distributing it to others.The XPUB format is in fact protected with a tailor made DRM that encrypts all content files.

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Many users, zero problems.

You can enter a login to access the application, check your Google analytics, view registered users and keep them updated with push notifications. With SHELF, you can integrate your existing sign-in system and your custom purchasing systems.

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We love special projects.

We love schools and projects with a social impact, and SHELF's technology has enabled many important initiatives worldwide; contact us, and click to find out more.

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CASE HISTORY

Made with shelf.

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Legentibus

There is a new way to learn Latin and new technologies and methodologies. Shelf and audiobooks are two of them, and our clients at Latinitium have hit the nail. Now famous throughout the European Latin community with their Legentibus app, they help students and enthusiasts to learn Latin through a meticulously curated library. They offer a unique combination of Latin texts, and synchronized audio provides a new learning experience. Latinitum has chosen to distribute audiobooks and interactive content created with PubCoder through the Apple Store and Google Play Store's subscription system.

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In Viaggio

The new version of Touring Club Italiano’s “In Viaggio” application has just been published, created with the “Shelf” technology. The app publishes and distributes editorial content from one of the most renowned publishers of Italian tourist guides and magazines, with discounts and privileged access for TCI members.

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eReaders Black Cat and Cideb

D Scuola SpA with Cideb and Black Cat has created eReaders, where you can purchase single products or subscribe to the entire catalog of audiobooks, books, and exercises. The digital platform includes classrooms, and statistics on the students’ activities and is accessible through a dedicated mobile app, available for Android and Apple devices, and via the web for desktop use.

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LILAB: the tailor-made library

APAJH 44 has collaborated several times with Mobidys on digital innovation projects. This collaborative work's latest result is Lilab, a digital library for young people, professionals, and teachers. The APAJH 44 team built a collection of books for students, professionals, and teachers by making this virtual library available to everyone. The Lab Project's goal is to offer a reading tool for children with DYS and from an inclusive perspective to all young readers. Simultaneously, the aim is to expand the range of interesting tools available to professionals in the medical-social sector and national education, to provide the best possible support to young people in their learning process.

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Letterland

Letterland is a UK-based publisher leader in textbooks to learn the English language. Using PubCoder Letterland created Letterland Friends and Letterland Fix-it Phonics, using SHELF in a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling to 3/8-year-olds. Letterland characters turn letter shapes into pictographs that all live in an imaginary place called Letterland. Simple stories created to explain the sounds and shapes of letters, allowing children to make rapid progress toward word building, reading, and writing.

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Edook

Edook is a digital library that collects projects for children and teenagers, teachers, educators, students, and creatives; it's free to download. It gathers free downloadable content. I.e., Curious Guide For Courageous Kids is an interactive book for families, made to help them explain Sars-CoV-2 to their kids.

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PRICING

Discover our plans!

An annual fee that includes an App for iOS and Android, hosting and required store updates.

Base version

features
  • iOS and Android App configuration
  • Submission to Apple Store and Google Play
  • Access to a web-based CMS (Content Management System)
  • AWS hosting of PubCoder contents on AWS Amazon
  • Analytics on user access and interaction with content
  • XPUB reader
  • Audio and video player
  • PDFs reader
  • Flowable EPUB3 reader
  • HTML5 reader
  • Free app upgrades for iOS/Android (required from Google Play Store and Apple Store)
  • A distribution system for free content
  • Localisation (English, Italian, French, German, Spanish)
  • Training to the use of the CMS
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Pro version

BASE FEATURES +
  • Mac and Windows applications
  • In-app-purchase distribution system
  • Subscription "all you can eat" system
  • Q&A *(with stores limitations)
  • Coupons* (with stores limitations)
  • Audiobook reader + PDF incorporated
  • Push notifications
  • Proof contents
  • Languages: Arabic, Korean, English, Italian, French, German, Spanish
  • We can add all the languages you need* (providing us with the translation you need)
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Enterprise version

PRO FEATURES +
  • Graphic theme and layout design
  • Shelf web version on a dedicated URL
  • Statics system for exercises
  • Building APIs
  • Contents creation
  • Technical support hourly package
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iOS

Download and install the iOS version of this demo/showcase App on your Apple device and experience yourself what the platform can do.

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Android

Download and install the Android version of this demo/showcase App and experience yourself what the platform can do.

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Web

Proceed to the web version (optimized for Desktop) of a demo/showcase app and experience yourself what the platform can do. Registration is required to access.

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