What is BookRiff™?

BookRiff is a revolution in publishing technology. Through BookRiff, book and periodical publishers, authors, and other creators around the world are selling their content in chunks of different sizes, allowing anyone to mix published works with their own work and free Web content to create unique custom books.

What does this mean for you? 

I am a reader.

You are carnivorous when it comes to books. You love the words; the smooth, cool feel of the cover on your fingertips; the page that comes next. BookRiff enables you to build your own book, selecting content from virtually any source, and delivers your custom book on demand. Now you choose what comes next when you turn the page. 

I am a creator.

You are a publisher.

You have an eager audience, but you'd like a way to make your books and magazines go further and do more. By creating new editions, bundling your content in new ways, or allowing your readers to do the same, you can use BookRiff to give your books a second life. With your Creator Channel on BookRiff.com, your identity is unique, your content is interactive, and your audience is global.

You are an author, a blogger, a journalist, a designer, or an artist.

You have published works, and you have more to say about them. You have content that only lives online, or in the archives of a periodical. You have ideas for book covers no one has seen. BookRiff is your platform to give old works a new audience, and publish others for the first time.

I am the revolution.

You are more than your business card describes.

BookRiff is your common ground for creativity. It is a clean slate upon which you: the reader, artist, author, publisher, and bookseller, are free to draw your own masterpiece.

Who is behind BookRiff?

BookRiff Media, Inc. (BookRiff™) is a company owned by a group of shareholders, including the book publishing house and former principal owner D&M Publishers Inc.; and the software development company responsible for the development of BookRiff, Nitobi Software Inc. Both companies are based in Vancouver, Canada.

Nitobi Software Inc. is an award-winning software development firm responsible for the creation of PhoneGap, winner of the People's Choice award at the 2009 Web 2.0 Expo's Launch Pad competition. Known for its innovation in Ajax development, in 2007 Nitobi wrote Enterprise Ajax, published by Prentice Hall.  The team has been working with D&M Publishers to build BookRiff since early 2008.

D&M Publishers Inc. is one of Canada's largest independent book publishers. Its core publishing programs emphasize art and architecture; science, nature and the environment; Canadian biography, social and political issues; First Nations issues and culture; literary fiction; and international popular culture and sport. It includes the publishing imprints Douglas & McIntyre, Greystone Books, and New Society Publishers plus Canadian distribution for the New York house, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. With an established history of producing award-winning titles and a mission to help them reach audiences internationally, D&M now looks to the future of book publishing for new ways to connect readers everywhere with books today. Funded largely by the publishing company in its initial development, BookRiff was created with the idea that books are not the same today as they were one hundred years ago, but  are constantly evolving with the wants and needs of their readers.