Book Creator: Transforming Education through Digital Book Creation

Book Creator, a self-publishing tool, aimed to shift its focus towards serving the K-12 market and enhance student engagement by unlocking their creativity. The company wanted to provide a platform where students and teachers could collaboratively create and publish ebooks and learning materials. However, with a small team of 13, they faced the challenge of reaching millions of students and handling high-variability workloads. Additionally, they needed to comply with strict data access management requirements including GDPR in the European Union and FERPA/COPPA in the U.S. The company also wanted to rapidly develop new features while reducing the complexities of storing data and scaling access to it.

Book Creator is a digital tool that helps students become creative problem solvers through the creation of digital books. Initially, it started as a private self-publishing tool for rising authors. However, since 2017, it has turned its focus almost entirely toward serving the K-12 market. The company partners with Google for Education to deliver a highly accessible and open-ended experience for students and teachers in the classroom. Book Creator’s advantages come from its open-ended, collaborative nature, encouraging creative approaches to assignments by offering a blank canvas that does not prescribe how tasks should be completed.