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Meet Bubblin Superbooks, a social book reader for web. It's _iPad first_ and all the books (mostly public domain samples) work offline too using a service worker. Hope you…",{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"18706420","> so now I have to keep a tab open in safari constantly… You can close the tabs and re-open any number of books without an Internet connection. The books will work normally. That…",{"value":62,"source":53,"evidence":63},"Readers of books, especially iPad users, and authors publishing books",[64,65],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},"18706360","We have a code playground for authoring, so it's almost like frontend development on each page of your book. Here'a quick tutorial if you're up for it:…",{"value":69,"source":53,"evidence":70},"Creator receives 85% of revenue, Bubblin 15%, via Stripe Connect",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"18705310","> Why do you have the restriction to original work and public domain work \"with your own take\"? 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And yes, I'm aware of these issues pertaining to touch surfaces with\u002Fwithout keyboard and also on browsers that return isTouch true falsely on some machines running on…","unknown","beta","team",{"praise":91,"objections":107,"requests":139,"questions":169,"alternatives":184},[92,100],{"value":93,"source":94,"evidence":95},"Clean, polished UI that works well on mobile","commenter",[96],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"18704658","asyncanup","I love the ES6 book, crisp and clear The ui seems considered and polished, works good on mobile for me",{"value":101,"source":94,"evidence":102},"Responsive to user suggestions",[103],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"18705342","stakhanov","Cool! ...I like your level of responsiveness towards user suggestions :-)",[108,123,134],{"value":109,"source":94,"evidence":110},"No EPUB or PDF downloads, so books cannot be moved to e-readers",[111,115,119],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"18706050","silveroriole","I read all the time on my iPad. Sorry for the negative feedback, but I don’t think I would use this. If there’s no pdf\u002FePub download that I can put into a reader of my choice,…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"18705054","voxl","The entire point of bandcamp, for me, is FLAC downloads. There was already a comment about how there aren't epub downloads. So this is hardly the \"Bandcamp for books.\" More like…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"18704749","baroffoos","Had a read of the FAQ and it doesn't seem like its for me. I prefer my books as epub so they work nicely on my ereader. I also require that they be able to be downloaded as files…",{"value":124,"source":94,"evidence":125},"Not like Bandcamp because files are not owned",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"18705289","deng","From a user's perspective: The main point of Bandcamp is that you actually own what you buy. 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