“Read in Ibis Reader” widget available

Publishers and authors have been asking us for an easy way to get readers started with their books in Ibis Reader. Because Ibis is a part of the Web rather than a standalone application, we can easily add an ePub book that’s available on the web with a simple URL:

http://ibisreader.com/library/add/?epub=URL-of-the-ePub

Here’s some sample HTML if you’d like to start embedding links on your own pages:

<a href="http://ibisreader.com/library/add/?epub=URL-of-the-ePub">
  <img src="https://ibis_logos.s3.amazonaws.com/read-in-ibis-reader.png" alt="Read in Ibis Reader" width="300" height="61" />
</a>

You’ll need to encode the URL of your ePub file, either using the function in your programming language or a form like http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ (paste a URL and hit encode).

Please let us know if you’d like a custom icon at a different size.

Update: Thanks to David Pierron in the comments, there’s now a bookmarklet. Just drag this into your Bookmarks bar in most browsers: Open in Ibis Reader.