Beautiful and humane editorial tools
We are a creative technology startup solving problems to do with digital content production and publishing.
Contentment
Better content production
The iPad is revolutionising the market for ebooks and digital magazines, promising a better user experience for readers, as well as new revenue for publishers.
But many publishers are finding it difficult and time consuming to prepare content for mobile apps, at least not without hiring an army of coders. We aim to fix that.
Our first product
We’re soon to release a new product, Padify, that will make it easier for publishers to produce content that looks great on tablets and smartphones.
Padify is designed to play nicely with your existing magazine or book production workflow. It’s low cost and low risk.
Get in touch if you’re interested in joining our beta programme. We’d also like to talk to platform vendors who’d like to integrate tablet layout capabilities.
Lovely book apps
Attention to detail
We love books and care about quality. We’ll ensure your text is professionally typeset and properly proofed, without any of the errors that riddle so many ebooks.
Spread the word
Word of mouth is the best kind of marketing. Let readers promote your book by sending their favourite quotes to Twitter or Facebook, right from inside the app.
Cross platform
All our book apps are developed using HTML5, making it easier to port them to new platforms and devices as the market develops, ensuring your app backlist stays up to date.
Interactive & innovative
We can use all of the iPad’s capabilities to deliver an enhanced experience for your readers. We can add multimedia like photo galleries, video or audio; interactive maps, timelines, and infographics; quizzes or games.
Explore the future of the book
The book’s not dead or dying, but it is evolving. Now is a great time to experiment. We’ll brainstorm ideas with you and help you create future books now.
Our news
Blog On publishing platforms
Thoughts from the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the case against building yet more startup book platforms.
Blog Tech City Launchpad
We’re pleased to announce that Contentment has been awarded £100,000 in match funding from the Technology Strategy Board to help us develop our digital magazine solution.
Conference Publish!
Michael recently spoke at Publish! a day of innovation on the future of the book, held at the Watershed in Bristol on 8 December.
About us
We believe editorial staff should be given great tools to work with, that offer every bit as good a user experience as the best consumer apps. We want to build a happier and more productive workplace.
We’re not interested in building platforms. The web is the platform. Instead, we use cloud infrastructure, open source software, and agile development to build point solutions that play nicely with existing processes and systems.
We’re based in Shoreditch, London.
Our team
Michael Kowalski
Michael previously co-founded Kitsite and Pulp Books, and has worked with customers including the Guardian, BBC and Trinity Mirror. Just prior to founding Contentment, he was Head of Publishing for a Newscorp-funded digital publishing venture.
Danny Amey
Danny specialises in delivering accessible, scalable, high performance web sites using open source technology. He has led teams at Yahoo!, Tobias & Tobias, and Preloaded.
Rosy Rong
Rosy specialises in what is best described by this phrase: “an opaque mid–large sized receptacle filled with miscellaneous objects”.