Online Books or oBooks are an experimental model for a new form of publishing in which the Reader has full control over both the content and presentation of literature. oBooks abstract the idea of the book allowing the reader to build story anthologies dynamically from the internet and choose the final presentation form the book will take. In effect, the reader becomes both editor and publisher. Check out What is an oBook? for more info.

The first version of the oReader program developed here can produce concrete printable Adobe .pdf format eBooks from the .obf oBook files. The reader has control over the fonts, page sizes and margins. It was designed to test the basic theory, but the .obf format is easily translatable into any concrete form: .rtf bookfold publications resembling chapbooks, HTML compilations similar to standalone hypertext works and can even extend to presentation on PDA's and cellphones. You can do everything else on your phone now, why not build a book to read?

Everything here is free. The software and ideas are meant to encourage the development of this new form. The goal is to establish a community interested in exploring new techniques of experimental publishing. Please feel free to join in. Bring your ideas to the Forum or write info@obook.org!