Web books initiatives
A list of different initiatives of web books, listed chronologically (creation dates).
Definition of the web book concept
A web book, or webbook, is a book readable in a browser: a collection of organised documents, structured in parts (like chapters), with some navigation tools (like a table of contents or TOC), readable on the web and linkable. There are different levels of technological efficiency: mobile friendly (aka responsive), offline readable, Progressive Web Application (PWA), etc.
Documentation
Behind this list, a french article about the web book concept: Le livre web, une autre forme du livre numérique by Antoine Fauchié, october 24th 2016.
List of web book initiatives
Adaptive Web Design, First Edition, Aaron Gustafson, 2011 [en]
A book about the progressive enhancement philosophy.
https://adaptivewebdesign.info/1st-edition/read/
responsive offline readable Progressive Web Application
HTML5 For Web Designers, Jeremy Keith, 2011 [en]
A book about HTML5.
https://html5forwebdesigners.com/
Informations about the project
responsive offline readable Progressive Web Application
The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero, 2012 [en]
A book about design.
http://read.shapeofdesignbook.com/
responsive
Getting Started With MailChimp, MailChimp, 2013 [en]
A guide about MailChimp, the email marketing service.
https://mailchimp.com/resources/guides/getting-started-with-mailchimp/html/
MailChimp makes available a serie of guides, they are all web books: https://mailchimp.com/resources/guides/
responsive one page
High Performance Browser Networking, Ilya Grigorik, 2013 [en]
A book about browser performance.
https://hpbn.co/
responsive offline readable Progressive Web Application
Practical Typography, Matthew Butterick, 2013 [en]
A book about (practical) typography.
http://practicaltypography.com/
responsive
Designing for the Web, Mark Boulton, 2014 [en]
A book about web design, or designing for the web.
http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/
responsive EPUB
Eloquent JavaScript, Marijn Haverbeke, 2014 [en]
A book about JavaScript.
http://eloquentjavascript.net/
responsive
From Papyrus to Pixels, The Economist, 2014 [en]
A book about the future of the book.
http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault
responsive audio version skeuomorphism
Greek and Roman Political Ideas, Melissa Lane, 2014 [en]
A book about politic.
https://www.pelicanbooks.com/greek-and-roman-political-ideas
Other web books in the Pelican collection: https://www.pelicanbooks.com/
responsive paywall
Le design des programmes, Anthony Masure, 2014 [fr]
Doctoral thesis of Anthony Masure.
http://www.softphd.com/
responsive
Radius, 2014 [fr]
A collective and fictional book by the french publisher Walrus.
http://www.radius-experience.com/
responsive paywall
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, Richard Rutter, 2014 [en]
A book about web typography.
http://webtypography.net/
responsive
Atom Flight Manual, Atom, 2015 [en]
A guide about the text/code editor Atom.io.
http://flight-manual.atom.io/
modifications open
Atomic Design, Brad Frost, 2015 [en]
A book about atomic design, a process of design from Brad Frost.
http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/
responsive modifications open
Le livre 010101, Marie Lebert, 2015 [fr]
A book about ebook history.
https://www.010101book.net/fr/
Informations about the project, source files.
responsive offline readable
Professional Web Typography, Donny Truong, 2015 [en]
A book about web typography.
https://prowebtype.com/
responsive offline readable Progressive Web Application
Sass Guidelines, Hugo Giraudel, 2015 [en+fr+...]
A book about Sass, in many languages.
https://sass-guidelin.es/
responsive one page modifications open
Startup Playbook, Sam Altman, 2015 [en]
A book about how to build a startup.
http://playbook.samaltman.com/
responsive
Designing for Performance, Lara Callender Hogan, 2016 [en]
A book about design and performance.
http://designingforperformance.com/
An article about the book's design process.
responsive
Introduction to Metadata, Third Edition, Edited by Murtha Baca, 2016 [en]
A book about metadata.
http://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/
Informations about the Getty Publications' workflow
responsive
MaintainableCSS, Adam Silver, 2016 [en]
A book about writing modular, scalable, and maintainable CSS.
http://maintainablecss.com/
responsive
Node.js, Bonnes pratiques pour la programmation JavaScript applicative, universelle et modulaire, Thomas Parisot, 2016 [fr]
A book about Node.js.
https://oncletom.io/node.js
responsive modifications open
Resilient web design, Jeremy Keith, 2016 [fr]
A book about web design.
https://resilientwebdesign.com/
Informations about the project, source files.
responsive offline readable Progressive Web Application modifications open EPUB
Typography Handbook, Kenneth Wang, 2016 [en]
A book about best web typographic practices.
http://typographyhandbook.com/
responsive one page
Un petit livre à l'usage des parents, pour mieux comprendre leurs enfants à travers les jeux., De la part de Lego, 2016 [fr]
Digitization of a Lego manual by Thomas Gasc.
http://lego.methylbro.fr/
Informations about the project.
responsive one page digitization
Vietnamese typography, Donny Truong, 2016 [en]
A book about vietnamese typography.
https://vietnamesetypography.com/
responsive offline readable
Programming Design Systems, Rune Madsen
A book about "the new foundations of graphic design".
https://programmingdesignsystems.com/
responsive modifications open
Seeing Theory, A visual introduction to probability and statistics, Daniel Kunin, 2017 [en]
A book about statistics and design.
http://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/
interactive modifications open
Site Reliability Engineering, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy, 2017 [en]
A book about "Site Reliability Engineering", published by O'Reilly Media.
https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
responsive
Web Push Book, Matt Gaunt, 2017 [en]
A book about web push notifications.
https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/
responsive modifications open
The Economy
A book about economics, build with the Electric Book Workflow.
https://core-econ.org/the-economy/
responsive modular
A Trilingual Manuscript of the New Testament in Digital Research, Sara Schulthess, HumaReC, 2018 [en]
A book about Humanities research.
https://humarec.org/webbook/book/
responsive versioned
Mythologies postphotographiques, Servanne Monjour, Parcours numériques, 2018 [fr]
A book about "post-photographic mythologies" (in the Parcours numériques collection).
http://www.parcoursnumeriques-pum.ca/introduction-158
multimodal
The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols, Oliver Byrne, Nicholas Rougeux, 2018 [en]
A book about mathematics.
https://c82.net/euclid/
responsive reprinting digitization
New Deal Photography: The Works of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Judith Keller, Getty Publications, 2019 [en]
A starter theme for Quire, a multiformat digital publishing framework developed by Getty Publications.
https://gettypubs.github.io/quire-starter/
responsive modular multimodal
An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 103 Languages, Martin Benjamin, 2019 [en]
"An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 103 Languages".
https://www.teachyoubackwards.com/
responsive blog base
La social-démocratie est une chanson à boire, Otto Borg, Abrüpt, 2019 [fr]
A book about social democracy?
https://txt.abrupt.ch/antilivre/abrupt_borg_otto_la_social-democratie_est_une_chanson_a_boire_antilivre_dynamique.html
responsive single HTML file
Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser, Simon Pieters, 2019 [en]
A book about the HTML parser.
https://htmlparser.info/
responsive modifications open
Why Cryptocurrencies? Jonas Hietala, 2019 [en]
A book about cryptocurrency, made with Pollen.
https://whycryptocurrencies.com/
responsive modifications open
Exigeons de meilleures bibliothèques, David R. Lankes, 2019 [fr]
A book about librairies made by Atelier [sens public] and with Markdown, Pandoc and other programs.
https://ateliers.sens-public.org/exigeons-de-meilleures-bibliotheques/index.html
responsive versioned multimodal
Ise-ji: Walk With Me, Craig Mod, 2020 [en]
A book about a walk in Japan and landscape photography.
https://walkkumano.com/iseji/
one page responsive