Booktype

Last updated
Booktype
Developer Sourcefabric
Initial release14 February 2012 (2012-02-14)
Stable release
2.3 / 15 November 2017;8 years ago (2017-11-15)
Written in Python
Operating system Linux, OS X
Available inAlbanian, 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.pro
Repository

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]

Contents

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

Amnesty 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  [ de ]), 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

In 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

  1. ↑ "Booktype Features".
  2. ↑ "Who's the Patron of eBooks? (FOSOTNTT)".
  3. ↑ "Meet Open-Source eBook Editing/Publishing App 'BookType'".
  4. ↑ "Booktype Launches Crowd-Sourced eBook Tools".
  5. ↑ Charman-Anderson, Suw (14 February 2012). "Booktype: Book collaboration made easy". Forbes.
  6. ↑ "Why Amnesty International uses Booktype 2.0 for report publishing". 25 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Booktype localization on Transifex".
  8. ↑ "Adobe InDesign integration with Booktype's publishing platform". 16 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "What is a booksprint? And introduction".
  10. ↑ "Sourcefabric Booktype". 9 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "New Booktype output features create laid-out, print-ready PDFs across languages". 25 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Amnesty's Annual Report, a case study in single source publishing". 13 March 2017.
  13. ↑ "Software-Tipp: Bücher gemeinsam online schreiben, lektorieren und in Buch und eBook umwandeln". 13 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "mikrotext und Booktype". 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  15. ↑ "CONTENTshift veröffentlicht Shortlist". 8 September 2016.
  16. ↑ "Neuland 2.0: Abook und Booktype holen Startup-Preise der Leipziger Buchmesse". 26 March 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.