When visitors and inspired by, and engage with your Flipbook, they’re likely to share it, helping you reach a wider audience who might not have discovered it otherwise.

Users can share your Flipbook in various ways, depending on their device and whether you’re using iPaper’s built-in sharing options or a custom solution.

🖥️ On desktop, most visitors share your Flipbook by copying its web address and pasting it into an email, messenger, or social media.

📱 On mobile devices, iPaper’s default sharing feature activates the device’s native sharing options, users personalized ways to share based on their preferences.

For more flexibility, you can implement custom sharing solutions using the iPaper JS API, allowing tailored sharing options that suit your needs and those of your audience.

Whether you choose to use iPaper’s default sharing options, or build your own custom solution, you will need to enable Flipbook sharing in iPaper first. Doing so is easy:

With sharing enabled, visitors sharing via their mobile devices will have access to their personalized, device-specific sharing functions, making it incredibly easy and intuitive to share your Flipbook to any contact or app you have on your device.

You can see how your visitors will experience native sharing on iOS and Android in the video below:

With Flipbook sharing enabled, visitors from desktop browsers will have the Flipbook link automatically copied to their clipboard, when they click on the share icon.

If you're using a Branded domain, you can enable HTTPS to take advantage of the Flipbook API. This allows the Flipbook URL to be automatically copied to the clipboard when visitors click the share icon.

However, the Clipboard API is not supported when serving your Flipbook via HTTP. If you're using HTTP and need assistance, feel free to reach out to us via the messenger in the corner—we’re happy to help! 🙂

Want to provide a tailored Flipbook sharing experience, like easy sharing to specific social media platforms? With iPaper’s JavaScript API, you can build a custom solution to meet your needs.

The JS API offers various sharing commands that you can subscribe to when creating your solution. Below, you'll find a complete list of available commands and detailed implementation guidelines.

Embedding your Flipbook on your website is a great way to boost traffic and make sharing easier, integrating it seamlessly with your digital store.

By default, iPaper disables sharing functions for embedded Flipbooks by detecting when they are placed on an external page. To enable Flipbook-specific sharing options, you'll need to create a custom solution using the JS API, as described above.

Flipbook sharing can be implemented in different ways, which may affect whether iPaper's built-in sharing icon is visible to your visitors.

Use this flowchart below to determine its visibility based on your setup:

Many visitors may want to share your Flipbook on social media, so it’s important to consider this when creating a custom sharing solution.

With iPaper’s built-in sharing feature, visitors can easily share your Flipbook by copying and pasting the URL. On mobile, they’ll have access to various sharing options through their device’s native settings.

To optimize your Flipbook for social media, follow our best practices outlined in the guide below: