PaperC is an online platform for specialist books, including academic, reference and technical texts. PaperC’s digital library offers you access to numerous books by renowned publishers such as O’Reilly Media, Walter de Gruyter, and many more. You can read the complete text of books on PaperC at no cost.

PaperC is also a research tool, making it easy and efficient to work with online texts. Premium functions can be purchased on a per-page basis, enabling you to save and print text as a PDF, copy text with or without citation, highlight and annotate text selections while managing your research and books in a dedicated online library.

How PaperC works

It’s easy to read books for free on PaperC: simply register on the web site with your email address. Once registered you gain free access to over 4000 informative books, allowing you to read, search, bookmark and tag chosen texts. Individual pages can also be purchased for €0.10 each, enabling enhancements such as printing, saving whole books as a PDF, marking and saving excerpts within texts and annotating selected sections of the document.

What PaperC offers you

  • Free access to entire books from renowned global publishers and authors
  • Means to search, read and manage multiple texts comfortably online
  • Ability to create your personal online library including books, citations and annotations
  • Option to upgrade to premium functions such as printing, saving and annotating
  • Freedom to purchase only pages you actually require
  • No regular fees – Minimal purchase options providing low costs for premium functions

Who we are

Felix Hofmann, Martin Fröhlich and Lukas Rieder founded PaperC in 2008. The idea for PaperC emerged when Felix was writing his final thesis and regularly lugged heavy books between Berlin, Germany and St Gallen, Switzerland. As no online library specialising in technical and academic texts existed, Felix, Martin and Lukas developed PaperC to give readers access, not only to selected pages, but entire books for free. PaperC’s vision is to make knowledge freely accessible to users while creating a business model equally benefiting publishers and authors.

PaperC is supported by:
=mcminstitute University of St.Gallen: Media and Culture
Hewlett Packard Germany
TECHNOLOGIEGRÜNDERFONDS SACHSEN (TGFS)