YUDU is a site where you can read, publish, buy and sell content. With a FREE option, it could be useful for classrooms, teachers, or anyone who would like to publish "beautiful e-books, e-catalogues, music, audio books, photos and presentations" on the web. Pay accounts offer more capabilities. Documents published here (displayed as flash movies) can be viewed from the site or can be embedded on your own site.
If you just want to read, browse the site's offerings; you can do a tag search, or you can make selections by category (Art & Literature, Business, Comic Books, etc.) and then by type (books, newspapers, reports, photos). You'll find all kinds of public-domain books (e.g.,
Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
Frankenstein), specialty magazines, catalogs, organizational publications and more; there are professional publications as well as those published by students and other individuals. When your chosen "book" opens, simply click on the bottom right page corner to turn the page. I searched but found only one that was clearly student-produced (written and illustrated),
Scarlet's Story. Having nearly finished reading the entire
Amelia Peabody series by
Elizabeth Peters, I then enjoyed
Feline-faced Dieties of the Underworld.You'll surely find something here that matches your interests.
I was surprised not to find more student work, as I think students would really enjoy seeing their products published in this manner.
I tried it out on a simple Word document I've been working on to see how it works. After saving it as a PDF document and uploading it, I was given a link to the publication, code to copy and paste a link to the publication, and code to embed either a small or large cover to serve as a link to the publication. Click on the embedded cover at right to view my document. When on that site, click and drag on a page to turn it.
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