Press Kit

Our Story

Kotobee was created to make digital books more interactive, accessible, and engaging.

Kotobee began developing digital publishing solutions in 2011, at a time when digital content was rapidly evolving but ebooks remained largely static. While websites and mobile applications were becoming increasingly interactive and personalized, digital publications offered limited opportunities for readers to engage with content beyond reading the page.

Creating truly interactive digital books often required specialized technical skills, expensive software, or the help of development agencies.

We believed there had to be a simpler way.

We believe that anyone with an idea to write should have a way to do it.

We set out to create a way for anyone, regardless of financial means or coding ability, to bring their ideas to life for their readers. We created an authoring tool that allows anyone to quickly and easily add interactive content to books, with no coding required.

Today, Kotobee Author makes it possible to create interactive ebooks using audio, video, animations, image galleries, 3D objects, questions, widgets, pop-ups, and more. Authors can choose from reflowable and fixed layouts, customize their books, and export them for different platforms and devices.

We have also continued expanding the platform with AI-powered tools that help authors create content, generate questions and summaries, create images and audio narration, explain content to readers, and even generate fully functional interactive widgets from a simple prompt.

Kotobee protects publications with DRM security.

With the advent of EPUB, piracy skyrocketed. Bestsellers were first targeted, but others followed soon afterward. Cracks were released daily for every ebook platform.

Kotobee provides optional Cloud services to help protect digital publications through access control and DRM. Publishers can control who accesses their ebooks and audiobooks, manage user permissions, limit the number of devices associated with an account, and distribute protected content through web, desktop, and mobile platforms.

AI-powered tools for modern content creation

As the way people create content continues to evolve, AI has become an important part of digital publishing.

Kotobee brings AI directly into the ebook creation workflow, allowing creators to generate and enhance content without leaving their authoring environment.

With Kotobee Author's AI Content tools, creators can generate text, images, self-assessment questions, and speech from simple prompts. AI-generated text can be customized by parameters such as tone and length, images can be generated from descriptions, questions can be created for selected topics, and text can be converted into lifelike narration using AI voices.

Kotobee also introduced Smart Explain AI, bringing AI-assisted capabilities directly into the digital reading and content experience.

Our approach is simple: AI should help creators do more, not take the creator out of the process.

The Kotobee Team is dedicated to serve.

When customers ask for features, we add them. When customers ask for help designing ebooks, writing creative scripts, converting content, or creating specialized digital publications, we don't back down.

As of 2018, Kotobee Services now provides consultations, design, scripting, conversion, and deployment.

We reach out to support and serve writers, educators, publishers, and organizations everywhere. The Kotobee Blog publishes articles to help writers and nonwriters along the process of creative production, with tips and resources covering writing, ebook creation, self-publishing, sales, and promotion.

We aim to be where customers need us, the way they need us. Self-help support and videos, one-on-one live demos and chats, community resources and social media.

Kotobee is dynamic.

In 2016, Kotobee Author replaced its predecessor, BookBake. Since then, our customers have continued to shape Kotobee's development and guide us toward what it is today.

The Kotobee platform has grown into an end-to-end solution for creating, managing, publishing, hosting, and delivering interactive ebooks, audiobooks, apps, and digital libraries.

We moved beyond the limitations of static software by opening up HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors, giving authors the freedom to add their own scripts and create highly customized content. As a result, there are virtually no limits to what an ebook can do.

And we continue to expand what is possible. Kotobee Author now includes AI-powered tools for creating and enhancing content, generating images, questions, and summaries, producing audio narration, explaining content, and creating interactive widgets.

As for our team, we are dynamic individuals who grow every day. Everyone who joins the Kotobee Team cultivates new skills within the same career or branches into new ones, from a graphic designer to a back-end developer. In a dynamic environment, we can grow in any direction, with no limits.

We want everyone to love reading.

We want to make sure that anyone can access our writers’ ebooks. So we made certain that books created in Kotobee can be exported and delivered across a wide range of formats and platforms, including EPUB, encrypted EPUB, PDF, Kindle, web apps, desktop apps, mobile apps, and LMS-compatible formats such as SCORM. Kotobee Author also supports both reflowable and fixed layouts, giving authors flexibility in how their books appear across different devices.

We also believe that accessibility should be part of digital publishing. Kotobee Author provides tools such as reflowable layouts, synchronized audio and text, image alt text, customizable navigation icons, embedded video, custom HTML and CSS, and other options that can help authors create more accessible ebooks.

Kotobee Reader provides additional accessibility options, including night mode, dyslexia-friendly fonts, keyboard and tab navigation, adjustable font sizes, multilingual support, and text-to-speech. Readers can also use lookup tools and AI-powered Smart Explain to receive explanations of unfamiliar or complex terms.

We created Kotobee Books a free digital publishing platform, so authors can publish their ebooks without publishing fees, reach readers around the world, and earn 100% royalties on ebook sales. Authors retain control of their work and are not required to publish exclusively with Kotobee Books.

We created Kotobee Reader, a customizable ebook reader that supports interactive EPUBs, multimedia content, audiobooks, flexible reading modes, font-size adjustments, and accessibility features. It is available across desktop and mobile platforms and is also embedded into Kotobee ebook apps and libraries.

We created Kotobee Narrator, a free desktop application that makes it easy to turn MP3 chapters into structured audiobooks and publish them to Kotobee Reader or Kotobee Library.

And we continue to develop tools that make digital books more accessible, interactive, secure, and enjoyable for readers everywhere.

Kotobee Platform

The Kotobee platform, launched in 2016, is an end-to-end solution to create, manage, publish, host, and deliver interactive ebooks and audiobooks across multiple formats, platforms, and devices.

The Kotobee ecosystem comprises Kotobee Author, Kotobee Cloud, Kotobee Library, Kotobee Reader, Kotobee Narrator, Kotobee Books, and Kotobee Mini-apps.

Kotobee Author

Kotobee Author is desktop authoring software for creating and publishing interactive ebooks.

Authors and organizations can create content without coding, add multimedia and interactive elements, customize their books and apps, integrate with LMS platforms, and export their publications to multiple formats.

Kotobee Author also includes AI-powered tools for generating text, images, questions, summaries, audio narration, explanations, and interactive widgets.

Kotobee Cloud

Kotobee Cloud provides secure online ebook hosting, user access management, synchronization, analytics, integrations, and DRM protection. Publishers can control who accesses their ebooks and audiobooks, manage permissions, limit devices, and distribute content through their own websites and applications.

Kotobee Library

Kotobee Library is a solution for creating, publishing, and managing secure digital bookshelves.

Organizations can bring ebooks and audiobooks together in a branded library, manage users and permissions, collaborate with authors and administrators, organize books into categories, and integrate the library with LMS platforms.

Libraries can be delivered through websites, desktop applications, or mobile applications, while books and users can be managed dynamically from a centralized platform.

Kotobee Reader

Kotobee Reader is a customizable ebook reader for EPUB and interactive ebooks. It supports multimedia content, audiobooks, flexible reading modes, annotations, text-to-speech, font-size controls, multilingual interfaces, and accessibility features such as night mode and dyslexia-friendly fonts.

Kotobee Reader is also embedded in Kotobee ebook apps and libraries, allowing publishers to provide a consistent reading environment across their digital publications.

Kotobee Narrator

Kotobee Narrator is a free desktop application for creating audiobooks from MP3 chapters. Authors and publishers can organize audio chapters, add audiobook metadata, and publish audiobooks for use with Kotobee Reader or Kotobee Library.

Kotobee Books

Kotobee Books is a free digital publishing platform that allows authors to publish ebooks and reach readers worldwide. Authors can publish without publishing fees and earn 100% royalties on ebook sales. There is no exclusivity requirement, so authors remain free to publish their work elsewhere.

Kotobee Mini-apps

Kotobee Mini-apps are interactive applications and widgets that can be added to Kotobee ebooks to extend their functionality. Authors can use ready-made mini-apps or create customized interactive components, including AI-generated widgets.

Kotobee Services

Kotobee Services is a series of services to help writers, educators, publishers, and organizations along the path from inception to completion of ebooks, ebook apps, audiobooks, and ebook libraries.

Clients select from one to all services: consultation, design, conversion, scripting, publishing, and marketing. Clients provide mostly the text; Kotobee does the rest.

Facts & Figures

Recognition

• Winner of the 2025 EdTech Breakthrough Award for Course Authoring Software of the Year
• Winner of the 2023 EdTech Breakthrough Award for Publishing Software of the Year
• Winner of the International E-Learning Awards (IELA) 2022 for Elearning Authoring Tool
• Winner of the 2021 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award for Best Advance in Content Authoring Technology
• Winner of the Academics' Choice Awards 2016 Smart Media Award
• Endorsed by the UNDP

Users

• Over 300,000 current users
• Over 1,200 new users joining each month
• Users from over 200 countries
• Users from K12, Higher Education, Corporate Training, and Publishing

Kotobee Blog

• Over 10,000 visitors every month
• Visitors from over 200 countries
• Over 400 articles

Contact

[email protected]