Case Study: City of Rotterdam achieves cross-platform interactive ebook delivery with Kotobee

City of Rotterdam launches interactive ebooks on Apple and Android with Kotobee

The City of Rotterdam faced the challenge of creating an interactive ebook series to educate its inhabitants, which needed to function on both Apple and Android devices. Their previous solution, Apple's iBooks Author, only published to Apple devices. They explored dozens of other systems but required a platform that offered offline use, a book-like experience, and the ability to implement HTML5 widgets.

The vendor Kotobee provided a solution through its Kotobee Author software, which offered the required cross-platform compatibility and the unique versatility of using widgets and custom code. This enabled the city to successfully launch its interactive ebook series, making the apps available for free download on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, with the goal of achieving a wide number of downloads.

City of Rotterdam