Booktype is a free and open source[1] software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to PDF, ePub, .mobi, and HTML formats.[2][3] It was launched by Sourcefabric in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, which powers FLOSS Manuals.[4][5]
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| Developer(s) | Sourcefabric |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 14 February 2012 |
| Stable release | 2.3
/ 15 November 2017 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Linux, OS X |
| Available in | Albanian, Catalan, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian; translatable |
| Type | Bookmaking software |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License v3 |
| Website | booktype |
In March 2015 it was announced that Amnesty International was using a pre-release version of Booktype 2.0 to publish its Annual Report on the state of human rights, in multiple languages.[6]
Booktype interface localizations are crowd-sourced from volunteers in a Transifex project.[7]
While Booktype is open source software, it also exports books to the proprietary desktop publishing software Adobe InDesign via the ICML markup language.[8]
Facilitators of the book sprint method - creating a book collaboratively in a short period of time - regard Booktype as a "specialist software for doing book sprints".[9]
Booktype is no longer under development.[10]
Organisations using Booktype
editAmnesty International has been using Booktype for their annual reports three years in a row in 2014/2015, 2015/2016[11] and 2016/2017.[12] Books on Demand), the European market and technology leader for digital book publications use Booktype branded as easyEditor for their self-publishing service.[13] The Berlin-based publisher mikrotext uses Booktype for their entire catalogue.[14]
Nominations and awards
editIn 2016, Booktype was shortlisted for the contentSHIFT innovation award of the Frankfurt Book Fair but did not win.[15]
In 2017, Booktype won the Neuland 2.0 jury award for innovation in media and book publishing at the Leipzig Book Fair.[16]
References
edit- ^ "Booktype Features".
- ^ "Who's the Patron of eBooks? (FOSOTNTT)".
- ^ "Meet Open-Source eBook Editing/Publishing App 'BookType'".
- ^ "Booktype Launches Crowd-Sourced eBook Tools".
- ^ Charman-Anderson, Suw (14 February 2012). "Booktype: Book collaboration made easy". Forbes.
- ^ "Why Amnesty International uses Booktype 2.0 for report publishing". 25 March 2015.
- ^ "Booktype localization on Transifex".
- ^ "Adobe InDesign integration with Booktype's publishing platform". 16 March 2017.
- ^ "What is a booksprint? And introduction".
- ^ "Sourcefabric Booktype". 9 June 2022.
- ^ "New Booktype output features create laid-out, print-ready PDFs across languages". 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Amnesty's Annual Report, a case study in single source publishing". 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Software-Tipp: Bücher gemeinsam online schreiben, lektorieren und in Buch und eBook umwandeln". 13 October 2015.
- ^ "mikrotext und Booktype". 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ "CONTENTshift veröffentlicht Shortlist". 8 September 2016.
- ^ "Neuland 2.0: Abook und Booktype holen Startup-Preise der Leipziger Buchmesse". 26 March 2017.
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