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Here’s what people are saying about Issuu. There’s also a short list of media mentions.

“I love this flippy page thing”.
- Jamie Oliver, Chef, on Twitter

“We looked at a couple of ways that we could offer an online reading experience to users-including via regular HTML-and in the end we felt that Issuu was the best choice. What we love about it is that, because we’re using the PDFs of the books on From the Publisher’s Office, the online reading experience exactly mirrors the experience of reading the book in a physical format: all the design elements are there, the chapter headings, etc. Plus, the page-turning is really intuitive; it all made perfect sense. And, frankly, at the end of the day, it’s all about the content. All of our various Web efforts, whether we’re developing websites or an iPhone app, need to make it easy for readers to discover and engage with our books, and Issuu helps with that.”
- Jeff Gomez, Senior Director of Online Consumer Sales and Marketing, Penguin

“I was searching for a solution to virtualize our 60 page catalog, and an agency offered to do it for 4,500 Euro. We thought we had to abandon the project, but then we found Issuu, which is free! The feedback we’ve been getting from our collaborators is just so overwhelming. And we can now even follow our environmental policy and completely skip the printed catalog, which we didn’t have the means to do before. Thank you Issuu!”
- Lucile Prouteau, Lippi Fencing Solutions

“Thanks for continuing to be the best publishing tool out there for bridging paper and pixel. We can honestly say we’ve increased our online readership 50% with your help!”
- Scott Layne, Publisher, BMA Mag

“What an exceptional website you have. It’s quick, reliable, accurate and very easy to use…just brilliant simplicity. Catering for many titles for independent publishers, this is one of the best ‘page turning’ sites I have come across. Active live web links gives the pages that interactivity that printed pages just can’t offer. Certainly a supporting media for printed media.”
- Dean Cook, Managing Director, The Magazine Production Company

“I’ve been looking enviously at the PDF-to-Flash magazines produced by mammoth publishers and knew the costs would be out of my league. As a micro-publisher in a niche market Issuu allows me to look just as good as the mammoth publishers. In fact, I think Issuu’s social media tools are in advance of what most of the bigger publishers use. Mammoths are extinct now, aren’t they? I’ve been incredibly impressed by how slick Issuu makes me look. I’ve also had nothing but excellent feedback, and lots of views. Within just 10 days, the Bike to Work Book had had 10,000+ readers and, from the back end stats, I could see that nearly 50 percent of them read every single page.”
- Carlton Reid, Editor of BikeBiz and Co-Author of ‘Bike to Work’

“Ever since I learned about Issuu I have been amazed at how simple it is to convert our catalog files into interactive booklets that are easy to read, fun to use and accessible to anyone with a web browser. Issuu is truly a revolutionary service that will change the way people read documents, catalogs and booklets online.”
- Christopher Blank, Web Marketing Manager, ABRAMS Books

“After trying out a few small-scale experiments with Issuu — one of which that yielded 17,000+ views for a ‘The Cambist and Lord Iron,’ a Hugo-Award-nominated short story by Daniel Abraham from our collection ‘Logorrhea’ — we were confident enough to do something on a larger scale. For Karen Marie Moning’s ‘Faefever,’ we used Issuu to post the first three chapters of the book before it was released. This effort helped the book debut at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list and to date we’ve had over 170,000 chapter views. With such great results, Bantam Dell is continuing onward with pre-release campaigns for Rodes Fishburne’s ‘Going to See the Elephant’ and the launch of our new crime and suspense blog, Blood on the Page, which will feature advance Issuu excerpts for big name authors such as Lee Child and great new talents like Sean Doolittle.”
- Ken Wohlrob, Director of Internet Marketing, Bantam Dell Publishing Group (a Division of Random House)

“We thought a product like Issuu would cost the earth. In fact it’s free and unbelievable! We love it.”
- Sam Lassman Watts, Editor, The Other Side Magazine

“Issuu is the best! I was dreading the day I was going to have to pay some ad agency to put our PDF copies on our site in html. You guys did it better than I could ever have dreamed up. THANK YOU!!”
- Robert, Pegg, Co-Founder & President of The Niche Report, a B2B mortgage finance magazine with over 18,000 monthly readers

“We refused to use 95% of the other PDF viewer products out there because they had at least one drawback based on our requirements, and Issuu managed to cover all of them. I rely heavily on Issuu.com to market our magazine in the region. We use Issuu’s viewer everywhere – our facebook page, blog and website – even on our main homepage. ”
- Hassan Osman, Editorial Director/Founder of Sowar Magazine

“I love the simplicity and ease-of use of the ISSUU interface. I’ve been putting magazines online for many years, and we’ve had to come through a lot of dreadful, clunky interfaces to get to where we are now, but ISSUU represents the pinnacle of what’s achievable now. The upload engine is excellent, the browser intuitive and fast to load, and the ability to embed is just another string to your bow. Well done!”
Dave Atkinson, Farrelly Atkinson

“After some extensive research and testing among expensive online publishing websites, we firmly believe Issuu is a far superior package. And it’s free! The fact we can keep our magazine layout and font size just like in our printed medium speaks for your dedication in creating what we believe to be the best online magazine package on the market. Thanks again for such a fantastic product!”
- Keith Wood, Editor of Track & Race Cars Magazine

“We’ve gotten lots of excellent feedback from our readers (I believe the exact phrase was ‘Alive is getting WICKED sweet! This new page is CRAZY!’)…Thanks for providing this for us - such a powerful tool!”
- Jennifer Dotson, Executive Director, Alive Magazine

“This is a rad product. Well done. We’ve been talking about something like this for a while and it’s exactly what we need.”
- Anthony, Misprint Magazine

“I am an ICT co-ordinator for approximately 100 schools in Ireland. We just used Issuu to publish some online comics, and the pupils were ecstatic to see their work up on the internet. This is a fantastic tool and we just wanted to say well done.”
- Aideen O’Shaughnessy - ICT Advisor

“I just wanted to tell you how much I like what you’re doing. Great idea and even better execution! I run an art group called Anteism. We host collaborative art projects, shows and publish books. I’ve recently started an open source library on our site. I wanted people to browse our books before thinking about purchasing. I now wish I hadn’t spent so much time on the webdesign, what you’ve created is perfect! I look forward to having our entire publishing catalog on Issuu.”
- Ryan Thompson, Anteism

“Think of Issuu as the YouTube of printed documents. And that’s important as more people rely on printed documents for communication than video, or audio. Hence Issuu has the potential to be even bigger than YouTube. Not only that, it is easier to use, is much better designed and provides several different ways you can get your documents distributed. I’ve been waiting for Issuu for years…!”
- Graham Jones

All done? You should check out our media mentions.

Send your testimonials to us: press@issuu.com