Estonian Digital Book Centre

Estonian Digital Book Centre (Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus OÜ, abbreviated EDRK) is an Estonian company founded in 2010 and based in Tallinn. It operates at the intersection of publishing and digital distribution: it produces e-books from the print or manuscript files supplied by traditional publishers, and it also lets individual authors release their own works as e-books. The resulting titles are marketed and sold through a sales platform that EDRK itself created, including an online store where readers can buy EDRK-produced and EDRK-brokered publications directly, without an intermediary. The company's stated mission is to make digital books easily accessible and to improve the reading experience by allowing people to read at a time and place of their choosing. Its homepage emphasizes that a digital book can be purchased without leaving home, that readers can choose from thousands of digital books in e-shops or reading apps, and that EDRK helps turn paper books into digital books simply, affordably and quickly so that they are conveniently available to the reader. The site is presented in several languages — Estonian, English, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Azerbaijani — reflecting an ambition to serve readers beyond Estonia as well as at home. Beyond conversion and retail, EDRK has acted as a publisher in its own right. In 2020 it released "Öökullilood" ("Owl Stories"), a series of original children's stories by Estonian writers published exclusively as e-books. Five titles appeared in the series: Mait Vaik's "Siimuke ja Igav", Jüri Kolk's "Renate", Peeter Sauter's "Lapse igatsus", Mudlum's "Mulle ei meeldi, et mul on nii suur vend", and Kaja Kann's "Maailma kõige targem poiss". This initiative illustrates the company's dual role as both a technical enabler for other publishers and an original e-book publisher. EDRK is a private limited company (OÜ) rather than a listed business. Its content direction has been led for a long period by the translator Eva Kolli; since 2023 that role has been held by Marge Tänava. The company's registered address is Tartu mnt 74, Tallinn 10144, and it can be reached by telephone at +372 58 348 384. Its activities place it within Estonia's small but digitally advanced book market, where e-books and reading apps have become an established complement to print.

Estonian Digital Book Centre (Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus OÜ, EDRK) was founded in 2010 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia. It was established to serve a specific gap in the Estonian book market: the conversion of traditional print publications into digital formats and their distribution through digital channels. Rather than operating solely as a conventional publisher, EDRK positioned itself as a service provider and platform, offering traditional publishers the ability to produce e-books from their print or manuscript files and to market those e-books through a sales platform created by EDRK. It also opened the same route to individual authors, who could publish their own works as e-books through the company. A central element of the business is EDRK's own e-shop, where publications produced or brokered by the company can be purchased directly, without intermediaries. This direct-to-reader model is presented on the company's website as a way to make digital books simple, affordable and quick to obtain, and to let readers buy and read at a time and place of their choosing. The website is offered in Estonian, English, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Azerbaijani, indicating an interest in readers across the Baltic region and beyond, even though the company's core market is Estonia. In 2020 EDRK moved beyond conversion and retail into original publishing with the launch of "Öökullilood" ("Owl Stories"), a series of original children's stories by Estonian writers issued exclusively as e-books. Five books appeared in the series: Mait Vaik's "Siimuke ja Igav", Jüri Kolk's "Renate", Peeter Sauter's "Lapse igatsus", Mudlum's "Mulle ei meeldi, et mul on nii suur vend", and Kaja Kann's "Maailma kõige targem poiss". The series demonstrated that e-book-only publishing could be used for original literary content, not merely for digitizing existing print titles. Over the years the company's content direction was handled for a long period by the translator Eva Kolli. In 2023 Marge Tänava took over that role. EDRK remains a private limited company (OÜ) headquartered at Tartu mnt 74, Tallinn 10144, and continues to operate its e-book production, platform and store as an active participant in Estonia's digital book market.

• 2023

  Marge Tänava becomes content director, succeeding long-serving Eva Kolli.

• 2020

  EDRK publishes the e-book-only children's series "Öökullilood", with five original stories by Estonian writers.

• 2010

  Estonian Digital Book Centre (Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus OÜ) is founded in Estonia.

A local digital-publishing enabler and e-book retailer that helps Estonian publishers and authors turn print titles into conveniently available e-books.

• E-book conversion service

  Production of e-books from publishers' print or manuscript files.

• EDRK online e-book store

  An e-shop selling EDRK-produced and EDRK-brokered publications directly to readers.

• "Öökullilood" series

  A 2020 series of five original Estonian children's stories published only as e-books.

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2. 2Estonian Digital Book Centre — Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus — Vikipeediaet.wikipedia.org