The story of Zoboko began with a simple mission: to make literature universally accessible. It grew into a digital repository hosting hundreds of thousands of titles, ranging from academic textbooks and political ideologies to contemporary romance and niche psychological fiction.

Zoboko operates in a grey area, but it is generally considered . They are not torrenting or pirating files like Library Genesis (LibGen). Instead, they have affiliate agreements with distributors of self-published content. They utilize DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices seriously. If a publisher asks them to remove a book, they do.