15 Online Tools to Create E-Magazines, eBooks and Digital Newspapers

Updated on December 4th, 2014 by Jules, Quertime Editorial in Web Tools

Looking for an easy way to create your own digital magazine for online publication? Well you can do it pretty easily with the help of some online tools available on the Web. Today we’ve done a thorough research and short listed 15 e-magazine publishing tools that are absolutely worth your attention.

The good news about these web-based tools is that they are free and easy-to-use. Their intuitive user interfaces let you being able to publish a professional looking e-magazine, ebooks and online newspapers in just a few steps. Additionally, these tools are highly customizable to suit users’ different digital publication needs. So whether you want to create a fashion e-magazine to promote your boutique, sell ebooks to make extra money or publish school newspaper to recognize students’ hard works, these tools work best for you!

Calameo
Calameo is a free publishing platform that allows users to create a professional looking magazine and presentation. It makes publication sharing easy by allowing users to embed them on blog and website. The tool is integrated with multiple social networks sharing the publications with wider audience, globally. Calameo is also a great resource for finding million of interesting publications.

Uniflip
Uniflip is a self-publishing web tool that enables users to convert PDF file and Word document into e-magazine and flipbook in flip page format. The cross-platform online service lets you design and publish on any website, tablet and mobile devices, as well as Facebook pages. It’s a great resource for digital publishers, media agencies, marketers, etc.

Google Currents
Google Currents is a social magazine app that allows users to create personalized publications in a swipable magazine format which can be perfectly viewed on the smartphones and tablets. The free publishing platform enables you import articles from blogs and feeds, embed YouTube videos, upload pictures and many more interactive features.

3D Issue
3D Issue is a premium publishing suite that can convert publications into page turning e-book and digital magazine. Users can output digital editions for laptops, tablets, ebook readers and other mobile devices.

Zinepal
This free online ebook creator allows you to turn content from websites and blogs into e-book in various formats such as PDF, Kindle, ePub as well as Mobipocket formats.
The whole conversion only requires 4 simple steps.

Joomag
This is a free digital publishing solution provider. It allows users to create digital content like e-magazines, ebooks, and catalogues by converting PDF files. The online tool is HTML5 supported and has many interactive features and plug-ins. To make the digital content more interesting, Joomag allows users to include links, video and audio, Flash animation, photo gallery and many more.

Realview
Realview is a powerful digital publishing suite where you can publish online magazine, e-newspapers, digital catalogue and other web documents. The publications can be perfectly viewed on the desktop computers, smartphones, tablets and Facebook.

Scribd
Scribd is one of the largest digital document libraries that houses millions of ebooks, magazines, reports, and other documents in many languages. The site allows users to upload documents in various formats including PDF, Office documents and ePUB files, turning them into digital magazines.

Flipviewer
Flipviewer is another publishing tool that able to convert your PDF documents into digital page turning publications. It’s supported with various multimedia features including video, audio and Flash animations / effects.

Issuu
Similar to Scribd, Issuu lets you explore a huge range of digital publications including e-books, e-magazines, newspapers, catalogs, etc. Users are allowed to upload their printed materials and publish them online with animated page flip functionality. Additionally, the website is integrated with social networks which are helpful in promoting your uploaded materials.

OpenZine
OpenZine is a paid publishing tool that allows users to create web content in a magazine style blog. Its intuitive user interface and straightforward features enable you to design the blog the way you want.

WordPress
WordPress is a well-known free and open-source publishing platform used by millions of bloggers and web developers worldwide. It has a huge variety of templates, both free and premium that can turn your blog into a magazine-style website.

Baker Ebook Framework
A HTML 5 ebook framework that enables users to create interactive ebook and e-magazine for iPad and iPhone.

Build a Newspaper
As the name implies, this web service provides you a number of templates for creating a professional looking newspaper. Simply open the given template and then replace the text and images with your own. Your news stories will then be auto-flowed into the pre-formatted columns.

Newspaper Clipping Generator
A very simple tool for generating newspaper. All you have to do is furnish the name of newspaper, date, headline, and your news story. The rest will be taken care by the tool.