To publish a book or long-form text on Zayvay, upload it as an EPUB. From Forge, click New Canvas → Ebook.
The flow:
- Upload the EPUB file.
- Zayvay processes it — splits it into chapters, extracts text, generates a table of contents.
- You review the chapter split. Sometimes EPUBs have odd structure and a chapter break shows up in the wrong place. Drag to fix.
- Add metadata: title, cover image, ISBN if it exists.
- Read the rights attestation — you have to confirm you own the rights before publishing.
- Publish.
Once live, your book reads in a paginated reader on your Vault. Viewers can:
- Read chapter by chapter.
- Save their place — Zayvay tracks reading progress per viewer.
- Echo individual paragraphs.
- Adjust font size, theme, and line spacing for their reading preferences.
Files up to 30MB process quickly. Larger files take a few extra minutes. If your EPUB has a lot of inline images, processing is slower — that's expected.
You can also upload other formats — PDF, Word — but they'll be converted to EPUB first, and the conversion isn't always clean. EPUB in directly is the best path.