Not a PDF
A WebBook can move, hold plates, and still be a book. EPUB and PDF stop. .wb5 is the Örama format.
A NÖRGRU DIVISION
A NÖRGRU DIVISION
Hover the mouseScroll to change roomTap a room
Örama
01 — Örama · orama.works
Books that refuse to sit still.
Örama is the WebBooks marketplace of NÖRGRU. The file ends in .wb5. It is written in Studio, read in Reader, and — when Örama lists it — sold with the writer keeping sixty.
The catalog
Hover a book to move
Highlighted
The catalog
The arc above is only what Örama is highlighting. This is the shelf: every WebBook, searched and paged, so it still holds when there are hundreds.
Offline-first
The file is the work. Örama Reader does not need the shop to be open once the book is on the device.
A list, not a dump
Örama lists what it will stand behind. Stripe takes the money and can split it. Örama keeps forty.
01
Write
Örama Studio, free, exports the .wb5.
02
List
Örama puts it on the shelf. Checkout is Stripe.
03
Read
Desktop and Android, the same file, in Örama Reader.
Ö-XL
NÖRGRU // Xperimental Learning
Engineering and experimental learning. These WebBooks are sold here, the same as the shelf above. You buy them on this site, or in the Reader app.
Nothing on the Ö-XL shelf yet.
02 — Örama Studio
The desk where a WebBook is made.
Studio is free. Write the book, export .wb5, send it to Örama. If Örama lists it, you keep 60%. Örama keeps 40%. Stripe splits the sale — including collaborators, out of your share.
New writers fill the module on this page. NÖRGRU approves it. Approved writers sign in at the atelier.
The split
60
40
Writer, sixty. Örama, forty. Stripe can divide the sixty among collaborators. Örama’s share does not move.
01
Download
Studio for desktop, free, when the build is posted.
02
Write
Compose the WebBook. Export a single .wb5.
03
Upload
Send the file to Örama. We list what we will stand behind.
04
Get paid
Stripe checks out and pays the split. The book stays on this shelf.
Sold here
If Örama lists the WebBook, it is sold on Örama. Not on another shelf.
Quality over volume
We list what we will put our name near. A full shelf of weak files is not the aim.
Same file
What Studio exports is what Reader opens and what the shelf sells. One .wb5, three rooms.
03 — Örama Reader
One app. The shelf. Off the network if it must.
Örama Reader opens .wb5 on a computer and on Android. It is the viewer for the books on this shelf and the files Studio exports. NÖRGRU built Wb5. Örama is where it lives now, on its own ground.
Sample typesetting · not an excerpt
The page holds.
A WebBook keeps its place when the tab would have forgotten it. The file is the book. The reader is only the glass it is seen through.
Android
Same file.
Offline, in the pocket, still a book.
Desktop
A reading surface, not a browser tab you hope stays open.
The computer build is for long sittings: a book that fills the glass, keeps its place, and does not ask the shop for permission to turn a page.
Android
The same file, in a pocket.
Android carries the WebBook you already own. Offline-first means the train, the workshop, and a dead signal are not a reason to stop.
.wb5
The Örama format. Not a wrapper around PDF or EPUB.
Offline
Once the file is on the device, the network can leave.
Two machines
Computer and Android. One reader, two installs.
One pipeline
Studio writes it. The shelf sells it. Reader opens it.
What a page is allowed to do
A WebBook can hold type, plates, and motion without becoming a website you have to be online to enter. The page still behaves as a page. That is the whole argument against a static file.
Type
Set like a book, not like a feed.
Plates
Images sit in the page, not in a separate gallery.
Motion
When a page needs to move, it moves. When it does not, it is still.