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Booktype
Developer(s)Sourcefabric
Initial release14 February 2012 (2012-02-14)
Stable release
2.1 / 9 August 2016; 8 years ago (2016-08-09)
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemLinux, OS X
Available inAlbanian, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish; translatable
TypeBookmaking software
LicenseGNU Affero General Public License v3
Websitebooktype.pro

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 [Books on Demand]), 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

  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. ^ "New Booktype output features create laid-out, print-ready PDFs across languages". 25 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Software-Tipp: Bücher gemeinsam online schreiben, lektorieren und in Buch und eBook umwandeln". 13 October 2015.
  10. ^ "mikrotext und Booktype". 29 September 2015.