Booktype

This article is about the book publishing software. For the Book Type Field of a DVD, see Book type.
Booktype
Developer(s) Sourcefabric
Initial release 14 February 2012 (2012-02-14)
Stable release
2.1 / 9 August 2016 (2016-08-09)
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.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] 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.


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