A curation innovation community for books & publishers
What works somewhere in Europe should not have to be
invented twice.
Chaptrly is a curated, cross-border record of practical innovation in the book sector — documented well enough that another organisation, in another market, can actually reuse it.
Why this, why now
Four pressures, one fragmented response.
Europe's book ecosystem faces the same forces in every market, and answers them country by country. Renew the Book, Future!Publish, FutureBook, Book 2.0, Booksa, Creativ'Book — strong programmes, evolving in parallel, duplicating pilots, tools and mistakes.
There is a cost to that fragmentation, and it is now setting the pace at which the sector can adapt.
Read the full caseReading and attention
Weakening reading proficiency across Europe, in a market competing for attention with everything else on a screen.
Technology and format shift
AI moving through editorial, marketing and infrastructure at once, while audio and subscription reshape where the revenue sits.
Fragile economics
Parts of the value chain under real strain, physical retail most visibly.
Compliance and sustainability
Accessibility obligations, deforestation and reporting rules arriving together, each demanding capability few publishers have in-house.
Recently documented
Browse the innovationsAI-books
A book you can ask questions.
The AI-Book Company Netherlands
APACE
Getting a whole sector ready for the European Accessibility Act.
Fondazione LIA and partners Italy
Shimmr AI
Advertising for the whole catalogue, not only the lead titles.
Shimmr AI United Kingdom
Visionary Tales
Turns a manuscript into a directed video trailer, with a human in the loop at every step.
WeDaVinci Germany
USBN & Read and Listen
One identifier for a work, instead of one for every edition of it.
Storytel Sweden
Knihobot / Bookbot
An industrial route for a second-hand book back to a reader.
Knihobot Czechia
How an entry gets here
Members submit
Participating organisations document innovations from across their market — their own and ones they have seen work.
A rotating board curates
An editorial and curation committee, staffed in rotation by members, reviews each entry against agreed criteria.
The sector reuses
Entries carry enough detail — problem, evidence, contact — for someone in another country to replicate rather than restart.
Founding participants are being invited now.
Contribute what your market has explored, reach the innovations of twenty others, and help set the agenda for European publishing.