Apply HN: Bubblin Superbooks

Hello HN!<p>We&#x27;re the Bubblin&#x27;oes and we&#x27;re trying to &quot;reinvent&quot; books.<p>I know this sounds a bit hackneyed but our motivation with Bubblin is to make books a <i>first class citizen</i> of web. Make them gorgeous, accessible and full of life.<p>It starts by considering that book is a collection of webpages. And then we can choose to do books with anything inside &#x27;em: WebGL, Shaders, CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5 - you name it!<p>Recently one of our books &#x27;ABCs for babies&#x27;[1] was well received in this community.<p>It&#x27;s nothing but a bunch of cute alphabets and animals done in pure CSS3. It&#x27;s also open source:<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marvindanig&#x2F;ABCD-Animal-Book" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marvindanig&#x2F;ABCD-Animal-Book</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11237233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11237233</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bubbl.in&#x2F;cover&#x2F;alfabet-polski-by-tomasz-walen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bubbl.in&#x2F;cover&#x2F;alfabet-polski-by-tomasz-walen</a>

My concern is that the relationship between time to create content and financial reward will dissuade people from adopting your platform.

How will you work with authors to make these books? I would wager that most authors don&#x27;t know HMTL5&#x2F;CSS3.<p>What would be the incentive for an author to work with you vs. a more traditional publisher?<p>How big is this market compared to mostly-text ebooks and print (picture) books?

the problem with ebook or magazine publishing isnt hosting the created books.. but its the creation process itself. Which is why I have a lot of hope for things like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.oreilly.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.oreilly.com&#x2F;</a> .<p>You need to solve for supply side via a creation mechanism - the demand side will come. If you havent already, do spend some time on reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;selfpublish

ARGGHHHHH! Poor zrebak!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;dc4Ek81" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;dc4Ek81</a>

Can superbooks be hosted from, sold through, other platforms?<p>Can I create a super book and sell it on Amazon or my own website?

What are you looking that YC offers? Or, do you just want the YC stamp?

How do you make money?

I&#x27;m so tired of sites trying to bring animated&#x2F;turnable pages to the web. Pages make sense when you&#x27;re constrained to to the size of a physical book, but here on the web you can have infinitely long pages with sections divided however you want. There should be no need to click a button to advance or split your text by what fits onto a page, and it certainly shouldn&#x27;t need to break the Find tool.<p>I have to admit that some of these books make great use of the layout, with 2-page wide drawings and text fit around the illustration. However, that same effect can be accomplished with vertical scrolling (as Medium has done) and those 2-page wide drawings get split in half on mobile where only one page is visible at a time.