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Sharing

Public sharing options explained

Find out how you can share your flipbooks to get more exposure

Overview

Sharing your digital content effectively is essential for getting your message across. Whether you're sending out marketing materials, training manuals, or internal documents, there are several ways to make sure your flipbooks reach the right audience. This guide explains how to share public flipbooks. If you’re looking for private sharing options instead, read this article.

Have questions about private sharing? Let’s chat.

Use cases

Marketing campaigns & branded materials: Share product catalogs, digital magazines, and promotional content to maximize visibility and reach.

Lead generation content: Share whitepapers, industry reports, and educational materials while capturing leads through search engine discovery and social sharing.

Public-facing corporate communications: Share annual reports, sustainability reports, and investor relations materials that need to be easily accessible to stakeholders and the media.

E-commerce and product showcase: Display shoppable catalogs and product collections that can be embedded on your website or shared across multiple channels.

Event and program materials: Share conference schedules, event programs, and educational course catalogs that need to reach a broad audience.

Key benefits

Flexible access control: Adapt content visibility from public to private based on your business requirements.
Enhanced security: Protect sensitive business materials with enterprise-grade access controls.
Streamlined distribution: Share content efficiently across teams, departments, and external stakeholders.
Professional presentation: Maintain brand consistency while sharing materials externally.
Analytics Integration: Track engagement and monitor content performance.

Requirements

Premium plan
A published flipbook

Step-by-step guide

Share the full-view link

The full-view URL is a clean way to share your flipbook, without any distracting menus, related publications, or footers. It offers a better browsing experience for users.

To get a full-view link:

1. Go to the Dashboard.

2. Hover over the flipbook you want to share.

3. Click on the Share button on the right side of the flipbook.

hover over the flipbook and click on share

4. Copy the link from the popup that appears.

copy share link

Here's an example of how a flipbook full-view link looks.

Share from a specific page

1. If you want your readers to open your flipbook from a specific page, you can do so.

2. Go to your Dashboard and hover over the flipbook you want to access

3. Click on View. This will open your flipbook in the player. hover over the flipbook and click on view 3. Go to the page you want to be the first one your readers see.

4. Click on Share.

5. Select From current page.

6. Click on Copy link.

Share on social media

You can share your flipbook on Facebook, X, Whatsapp, and LinkedIn. Here's how:

1. Hover over the flipbook you want to share and click on Share.

2. Choose the social media platform where you want to share your flipbook.

When you click on one of these social media buttons, it will create a social media post with the flipbook's URL and flipbook preview based on the type of preview supported on the selected social channel.

For example, this is how it looks when you want to share it on LinkedIn:

Share via email

1. Hover over the flipbook you want to share and click on Share.

three dot menu 2. Click on Send Email.

The Send email option allows you to customize a standard email template. Change the subject line, logo, title, description, button label, footer description, background color, accent color (button and text).

When customizing the email, you can see how it would look in both desktop and mobile versions.

Important: You will have different customization options based on your subscription.

The Business and Enterprise plans let you send fully branded emails and share flipbooks privately via email. With the Starter and Professional plans, you can customize basic details such as the title, subject line, and description.

2. Import email as HTML

After customizing the email, you can copy the email code and import it as an HTML email template in your Email service provider tool. You can find the code at the bottom of the page.

Note: When sending a flipbook via email, the flipbook will not be animated. The email will contain the flipbook’s cover, and the recipient must click the link to access the flipbook.

Alternatively, you can send the email directly through Flipsnack. In this case, the email will be sent from noreply@flipsnack.com, which cannot be customized. Read about email sharing and how you can use a custom email provider with Flipsnack.

Share the link to the flipbook on Flipsnack

This link includes your flipbook along with Flipsnack's site menu, footer, and related publications. Business and Enterprise subscribers can customize this page, removing our branding and adding their own links.

To get the link to the flipbook on Flipsnack, follow the next steps:

1. Go to your flipbook on the Dashboard.

2. Hover over the flipbook you want to share and click on Details.

click on details

3. Scroll down to the Share section and click on Copy to get the link to the flipbook you want to share.

copy link from details page

Here's an example of a link to the flipbook on a Flipsnack profile.

Embed (add the flipbook player on websites)

In addition to the previously mentioned sharing options, you can also embed the flipbook on a site or blog pretty easily.

1. Go to your flipbook on the Dashboard.

2. Hover over the flipbook you want to share and click on Details.

click on details

3. Click on Embed from the left-hand menu.

click on embed to get the link

Note: If you click on Customize appearances, you'll access the Customize section, where you can customize the flipbook player by adjusting branding colors, adding lead forms and a table of contents, setting up Google Analytics for in-depth tracking, and more.

4. Copy the embed code

copy the embed link

Important: If you publish your flipbook as private, you won’t be able to embed it.

Generate a QR code

You can also generate a QR code for your flipbooks. Here's how:

1. Go to your flipbook on the Dashboard.

2. Hover over the flipbook you want to share and click on Details.

click on details-1

3. Click on Download QR code from the left-hand menu. Here, you can add a custom logo and download it as a JPG, PNG, or SVG. Scanning the QR code from a mobile device will open the flipbook.

download QR code