Features
Okadabooks is a book reading/publishing platform for anyone who’s looking forward to publishing any written content or reading published works. It’s basically an Application for everyone, for FREE. The name Okadabooks was thought of when the founder was riding an Okada in his dreams. He noticed how Okadas were able to by-pass the congested roads of Nigeria by offering a cheaper, faster and more flexible alternative to conventional means of transportation. Today the conventional way of reading and publishing books is currently experiencing a traffic jam from poor distribution to high printing costs. Okadabooks seeks to by-pass the traffic in the Nigerian book publishing industry by making it easy to publish books, making it cheap to buy books but more importantly making it fun to read books on mobile devices! At the end of the day, we are driven by the concept that people will read…if books are made cheap and easily accessible and what better way to do that than by using mobile phones!?
The Okadabooks App is also an electronic book management app that bears all categories of books on its seat, including unpublished works. The App was built to ease reading for everyone. You could update and use its features, including the web and App version of the platform without leaving a dime, even if your books are priced. The only time you get to pay on Okadabooks is when you refill your account to purchase books that are not free.
As at January 2015, Okadabooks already had 9,200+ books in its store, 4000+ registered users with over 449,000 downloads and counting, every hour. At the time of this post, they had 10,000 books, 73,000 users and 675,000 Downloads according to the real-time stats on their Homepage.
In 2018, they hit 200,000+ users and over i million book downloads.
Once a book is in the store, readers have the option of paying in different payment methods including Paypal and MasterCard from anywhere around the world. Other methods include Local banks, PAGA and local airtime (In Nigeria). However, some books are free and do not require any of the payment means mentioned and authors make 70% on each sale!
Publishers and writers who use the app described it as Africa’s fastest growing eBook portal as it allows all genres of literally works to be published without restrictions (although books are reviewed by buyers/readers), including African comics, projects and School past questions. Others described it as The largest collection of African content in one place with books from the greats to the young writers.
Although built to ease publishing and publicity for Africans, other continents have also hopped on the bike and everyone’s favourite “Oliver Twist” and other notable Novels could also be found on the Okadabooks store. The Android App is available for download on Google Play, The Appstore for Blackberry Os 10 and a Windows Phone version, all free.
Other Features of Okadabooks
Upload your book once and reach multiple retailers. Spend more time writing and less time managing multiple retailer platforms!
Monthly sales reporting from the OkadaBooks store
10,000+ titles published by authors and publishers in Africa and from around the world
Named “MTN App of the Year” by for 2013
Provides simple publishing system to make it easy for anyone to create, publish and distribute an ebook
FREE unlimited anytime-updates to books and metadata
Secure Payment Gateway (PayStack)
HAUSA VERSION:
Okadabooks wani littafi ne na karatu / wallafe-wallafe ga duk wanda ke jiran ci gaba da wallafa duk abin da aka rubuta ko karanta ayyukan da aka wallafa. Yana da Application ga kowa da kowa ba tare da an siye ta ba.
An ambaci sunan Okadabooks lokacin da wanda ya kafa shi Okada a cikin mafarkai. Ya lura yadda Okadas ke iya wucewa ta hanyoyi masu kariya a Najeriya ta hanyar samar da farashi mai rahusa, da sauri kuma mafi sauƙi a madadin hanyoyin sufuri. Yau yau litattafan karatu da wallafe-wallafen na yau da kullum suna fuskantar matsalolin tarzoma daga rarraba matalauta ga farashi mai girma. Litattafai suna neman hanyar wucewa a cikin littafi na wallafe-wallafe na Najeriya ta hanyar sauƙaƙe wallafa littattafan, ba don saya littattafai ba amma mafi mahimmanci yin sa'a don karanta littattafai a kan na'urori masu launi! A ƙarshen rana, zamu kaddamar da manufar cewa mutane za su karanta ... idan littattafai sun zama masu sauki kuma suna iya sauƙi kuma mene ne hanya mafi kyau da za ta yi haka ta hanyar amfani da wayoyin hannu?
Okadabooks App shi ma kayan aiki ne mai kula da litattafan lantarki da ke ɗaukar dukkanin littattafai a wurin zama, ciki har da ayyukan da ba a buga ba. An gina App don sauƙaƙe karatun kowa. Kuna iya sabuntawa da kuma amfani da fasalinsa, ciki har da yanar gizo da kuma App version of dandamali ba tare da barin dime ba, koda kuwa ana sayar da littattafan ku. Kadai lokacin da zaka biya a Okadabooks shine lokacin da ka cika lissafinka don sayan littattafan da basu da kyauta.
Kamar yadda a watan Janairun 2015, Okadabooks sun riga sun samu littattafai 9,200+ a cikin kantin sayar da shi, masu amfani da 4000+ masu rajista da fiye da sau 449,000 saukewa da ƙidayawa, kowace awa. A lokacin wannan post, suna da littattafai 10,000, masu amfani da 73,000 da 675,000 Tashoshi bisa ga ainihin lokuta a kan shafin yanar gizon su.
Da zarar littafi yana cikin shagon, masu karatu suna da zaɓi na biyan kuɗi a hanyoyi daban-daban da suka hada da PayPal da MasterCard daga ko'ina a duniya. Sauran hanyoyin sun hada da bankuna, PAGA da na gida (A Najeriya). Duk da haka, wasu littattafai suna da kyauta kuma basu buƙatar kowane biyan bashin da aka ambata kuma masu marubuta sun sa 70% a kowane tallace-tallace!
Masu bugawa da marubucin da suka yi amfani da fassarar sun bayyana shi a matsayin tashar littafi na Littafi Mai-sauri mafi girma na Afirka kamar yadda ya ba da izinin kowane nau'i na aiki na ainihi da za a buga ba tare da izini ba (ko da yake littattafai suna nazari ta hanyar masu sayarwa / masu karatu), ciki har da wasan kwaikwayo na Afirka, ayyukan da tambayoyin da suka gabata. Sauran sun bayyana shi a matsayin mafi girma daga cikin abubuwan Afirka a wuri guda tare da littattafai daga manyan ga marubuta.
Ko da yake an gina shi don sauƙi wallafe-wallafe da kuma tallace-tallace ga 'yan Afirka, sauran cibiyoyin sun kuma hau kan bike da kuma "Oliver Twist" da aka fi so da kowa da kowa da kuma sauran Litattafai masu daraja a cikin Okadabooks store. Aikace-aikacen Android yana samuwa don saukewa a kan Google Play, Kayan Shafi na Blackberry Os 10 da kuma Windows Phone version, duk kyauta.
Sauran Hanyoyin Okadabooks
Shigar da littafinku sau ɗaya kuma kai wa yan kasuwa masu yawa. Ku ciyar karin lokaci da kuma rage lokaci yin manajan tallan tallace-tallace masu yawa!
Rahoton tallace-tallace a cikin watanni daga ajiyar OkadaBooks
Takardun 10,000+ da marubuta da masu wallafa suka wallafa a Afirka da kuma daga ko'ina cikin duniya
An kira "MTN App na Shekara" ta 2013
Yana samar da tsarin sauƙi don sauƙaƙe don kowa ya ƙirƙiri, buga da kuma rarraba ebook
FREE FREE kowane lokaci-updates zuwa littattafai da metadata
Ƙarƙashin Biyan Kuɗi (PayStack)