[OWA Awards 12′]Moglue: Create and Play with Your Own Storybook

One of the many benefits of the tablet proliferation is that it brings along delightful reading experience and thus facilitate the burgeoning e-reading and e-publishing industry. Seoul-based Moglue, is one of the wave-riders to leverage on the benefit.

The founding team of Moglue met each other at a Start-up Weekend event in Seoul, South Korea and spent the whole weekend realizing a concept of letting people make ebooks in an easier way that eventually turn into what Moglue it is now.

Moglue’s desktop platform enables publishers, amateur authors as well as artists to hands down create interactive ebooks and distribute them on iOS and Android devices, like iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android phones and Android tablets.

By using MoglueBuilder, you don’t have to be a master of any kind of programming language to become a e-book guru. Everyone could produce high-quality and interactive in few minutes just by adding text, importing art/sounds and adding interactive elements. It’s as easy as making ppt with a drag-and-drop interface.

With MoglueBuilder Parents could give the most special gift for their kids by making a One and Only ebook of fairy tales or bed-time stories for the beloved ones, it’s totally free. Or anyone could turn their old family photos into live ebook with cherishable memories.

For publishers, they can also the service to create ebooks and then get them distributed onto Apple’s App Store or Android Market, with a fee. Moglue charges US$ 199 to publish one book on Apple App Store or Android Market, you can also go towards one year unlimited publishing at $ 999.

Apple launched their own iBook Author to help both publisher and everyone to make their own ebooks, but Moglue differentiates itself in the idea of interactive.