Bookboon.com
Bookboon.com is a website that provides users with free ebooks in various subjects. Currently two main areas are covered guide books and textbooks for bachelor's, master's and graduate students. It is owned and operated by Danish publishing house Ventus Publishing Aps.
The textbooks are written by university professors and lecturers, targeted at engineering, IT, economy and business students. On every third page there is a half page advertisement. The ebooks are meant as a supplement of the regular course curriculum, and are as such not directly applicable by the education institution. The books are exclusively written for bookboon.com and are therefore only available on the website.
The annual download rate of the books is claimed to be in excess of two million.
Timeline
This timeline includes previous concepts and websites later transferred or converted to bookboon.com
- July 1988 - printed publishing company Ventus Publishing Aps. is created
- June 2004 - Danish website 'ventus.dk' created
- January 2006 - Swedish website 'studentia.se' created
- September 2006 - 'Studentensupport' is launched in Germany
and Netherlands
- July 2007 - OnLibri is launched in Denmark
- December 2007 - 'OnLibri' is launched in Netherlands
- February 2008 - 'Studentensupport' is launched in Belgium, Switzerland and Austria
- November 2008 - 'Bookboon' launched in United Kingdom
- December 2008 - 'Bookboon' launched in Norway
- January 2009 - 'Bookboon' launched in Czech Republic, Finland, France, Poland and Russia
- January 2009 - Sites are transferred to bookboon.com