Booktype
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Developer(s) | Sourcefabric |
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Initial release | 14 February 2012 |
Stable release | 2.1
/ 9 August 2016 |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Linux, OS X |
Available in | Albanian, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish; translatable |
Type | Bookmaking software |
License | GNU Affero General Public License v3 |
Website | booktype |
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]
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]
Organisations using Booktype
Amnesty International has been using Booktype for their annual reports in 2014/2015 and 2015/2016.[8] de ), the European market and technology leader for digital book publications use Booktype branded as easyEditor for their self-publishing service.[9] The Berlin-based publisher mikrotext uses Booktype for their entire catalogue.[10]
References
- ^ "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".
- ^ "New Booktype output features create laid-out, print-ready PDFs across languages". 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Software-Tipp: Bücher gemeinsam online schreiben, lektorieren und in Buch und eBook umwandeln". 13 October 2015.
- ^ "mikrotext und Booktype". 29 September 2015.